Children Are Gifts, Not Projects
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Could it be that if we were to take a bit more time to reflect on the inherent resourcefulness of our offspring as children of God, we might worry a little less... Read more.
Only Our Attention is Eternal
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It is the elites’ understanding of the prodigious power of attention that has led them to engage in their current campaigns of massive distraction, symbolized... Read more.
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson: The Ideological Spawn of George Bush Jr.
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Though many people of a more partisan cast may not want to hear it, the constitutional obtuseness demonstrated by Brown Jackson and an apparent plurality of her... Read more.
The Taboo Ingredient for Progress: Shame
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What no one told us, however, is that this reformist method of engendering peaceful change was highly dependent on the existence of a broadly-subscribed ethos of... Read more.
How the Sea Turns Stones Into Pebbles
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We’ve become, through a series of coercions and inducements forced on us by the government since 2001, and made banal through cult-like invocations and rituals,... Read more.
The Cartelization of Beauty
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Keeping it real thus also means making a conscious effort to find those spaces where the mediating practices of the elites are few and the chances for direct esthetic... Read more.
Feel-Good Leftist Abstractions Destroy Communities
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So yes, it is undoubtedly true that since the French Revolution, if not before, the political Left has been plagued by an unfortunate tendency to impose unproven... Read more.
The Wheels of Life
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The bicycle is the ultimate freedom machine; cheap, reliable, and largely beyond the ever-creeping reach of regulating authorities. It doesn’t saddle you with... Read more.
How to Repair Our Post-Repentance Culture
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Maybe I’m blind to their existence, but outside the largely narcissistic and comfortably non-personal woke rituals of remorse, I see few institutional pressures... Read more.
Exiles in Our Own Land
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Authoritarians like our current crop have an Achilles’ heel to which they are almost invariably blind. They assume that everyone else views the world as hierarchically... Read more.
We Often Imitate What We Say We Oppose
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“How to struggle for justice without becoming what we claim to despise in our opponents?” That is the question. How well or poorly we as activists and idea-makers... Read more.
To Starve our Feudal Overlords of Attention
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As Covid showed us, an unusually high number of those trotted out to us by our “noble” class as possessing inordinate wisdom are little more than self-interested... Read more.