Category: Consumerism

Stifling the Great Conversation

  1. Stifling the Great Conversation
  2. Threatening a “Right to Exist”?
  3. Quarreling querulously
  4. Toleration
  5. Bad Religion
  6. Net neutrality
  7. Does anyone have what it takes?

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Sataurday 1/21/17

  1. The Class Clown Repents
  2. “Leading from behind”
  3. Tribalism on Parade
  4. What I did at the Inauguration
  5. The scholarly reading audience
  6. My Man Mitch

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Where are the Watchmen? (Day 2)

I attended the Eighth Day Symposium, an Orthodox-inspired but broadly somewhat ecumenical gathering, Friday and Saturday. The Symposium title was “Where Are the Watchmen?,” based on a September 2016 Harpers essay by Alan Jacobs.

Some highlights of Saturday (Friday’s highlights are here). Sit back. It’s long — but very rewarding. I’ll highlight the links to my personal favorites, but your mileage may vary.

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Wednesday 10/26/16

  1. “Highest and Best”
  2. A sickly sub-pagan state
  3. Liberal ultramontanism
  4. BLM
  5. More than a little ironic
  6. Religious Right: theological liberals
  7. Jack Chick, RIP

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