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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