Category: General
Stuff I’m thinking about.
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Lessons in civility
They said, “Be civil.” So I looked to our nation’s moral leader for guidance.
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Wakanda: The black utopia
[Video essay]My first video essay: a look at Black Panther’s Wakanda through the lens of the utopian tradition.
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“Biblical” “logic”
“This is a secular state, not a church,” Jeff Sessions told a crowd in Fort Wayne, Indiana, a couple days ago, “and I am a law enforcement officer.”
Amen, brother.
Only…why, at the same event, did he “take a little bit of digression” (see the video, above) and explicitly invoke the Christian Bible as the (shaky) foundation for a (shakier) moral philosophy?
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A weekend away
I spent a couple days in Pacific Grove, near Monterey, to wrap up my end-of-semester reflection.
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“The Paranoid Style”: Déjà vu and something new
Trump’s endless tweeting , Conway’s epistemological contortionism, Sanders’s snowfake outrage, Giuliani’s media Blitz (Fox isn’t worried…): Is this all déjà vu, or something new?
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The examined life
I took a hiatus from my daily journal, hoping that it would open up some time for other writing projects. It did free up some time (this blog is partly the result of that) but I think it was a mistake. So I’m jumping back in, using the same tool I’ve used for the past decade.
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