Category: Legalia

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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Xmas, Observed (U.S.) 2016

  1. What is the meaning of this city?
  2. More on “reality”
  3. Tidbits from The Great Divorce
  4. Dateline Bethlehem
  5. Biden on Clinton
  6. Trump’s Attorney General

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