Who’d have thought a sixteenth-century Frenchman could seem so contemporary?
[Read more…]Wakanda: The black utopia
[Video essay]
My first video essay: a look at Black Panther’s Wakanda through the lens of the utopian tradition.
“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?
[Read more…]What I’m reading: Red Sonja
A weekend away
I spent a couple days in Pacific Grove, near Monterey, to wrap up my end-of-semester reflection.
[Read more…]“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?
[Read more…]Pet peeve: Introductions
I hate introductions.
I know; that first sentence is an introduction. It’s probably inevitable, since every essay has to start somewhere.
[Read more…]Reflections on my Iceland trip, part 2: Some room for improvement
As awesome as my trip to Iceland was—and it was awesome!—I do have a few regrets, things I could have done that would have made this amazing trip even more amazing.
[Read more…]Reflections on my Iceland trip, part 1: Some good choices
I’m not a great traveler. But Iceland is so consistently beautiful, and its people so consistently kind, that I only needed a few good choices to make the trip amazing.
[Read more…]Christianity today
For the most part, I’m not embarrassed to admit that I used to be Christian. But the white evangelical support for Trump is changing that, and I kind of resent it.
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