Category: Naked Public Square

Inauguration Day

  1. Music du jour
  2. A More Perfect Absolutism
  3. Read news like a defense attorney
  4. It’s more real onscreen
  5. Rahm’s lawless Chicago
  6. Land of the slave, home of the timid

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Tuesday 1/17/17

  1. Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin redux
  2. Chronicling a mid-life religious crisis
  3. Real Civil Liberties don’t get no respect
  4. Trump the Twitter-Tweetin’ Fool
  5. Is Trump the Heir of Reagan — or of LBJ?
  6. Deracinated Donald
  7. The Trump Dossier
  8. Eh? Was that a “Yes” or a “No”?

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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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Thursday 10/27/16

  1. Nothing but appetite
  2. Faith in the age of total information
  3. If you’re going to lie …
  4. Bayh #Fail
  5. Paris on my mind
  6. How angry?
  7. Fox, Drudge & Breitbart
  8. She had me at blah blah blah
  9. Orwell Does Montana
  10. Rights talk
  11. Discrimination talk
  12. The Unraveling

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Sunday 10/23/16

  1. Pride
  2. Introducing American Folk Religion
  3. No Illusions
  4. We must keep this quiet …
  5. Judging the Economy
  6. Late-term/Partial-birth
  7. The choice facing voters in November

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Saturday 9/17/16

  1. A More Perfect Absolutism
  2. Why nobody trusts Hillary
  3. Elitist fat-cat inversion
  4. Trump’s smartest unconstitutional proposal
  5. No tar, feathers, or quality control

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Tuesday, 8/9/16

  1. The Anti-Discrimination Religion
  2. Dialogue
  3. Essential, contingent and normal generic statements
  4. Religious humanism’s bad odor
  5. Sausages and laws
  6. Sewage and Wine

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