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Mark Mitchell’s Politics of Gratitude (Theoretical and Otherwise)

tree April 18, 2013

[Cross-posted to In Medias Res]
To continue with the excellent discussion begun by R.J. Snell, Mark Mitchell’s fine and thoughtful book is filled with important insights and challenges, which do not, in my judgment, quite achieve what the author lays…

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How to Write History and Practice Bourbon Politics

Carson April 17, 2013

But as a gesture of good faith he agreed to limit himself to a quart a day.

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A Prophet of Goodness: Review of Mark T. Mitchell’s The Politics of Gratitude: Scale, Place and Community in a Global Age

politics of gratitude April 16, 2013

At my worst moments, I succumb to thinking that we have become utterly trite, absorbed by ephemera, thin of character, quick but scattered of intellect, weak of will, and just at a moment in which we face gravely serious issues.…

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Capital Offense

April 14, 2013

Washington, DC…
I’ve been spending my semester in exile in our nation’s capital. My apartment is in Arlington, on a ridge overlooking the city. From that spot I have a clear view of the Pentagon, the Capitol dome, the Washington

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From the Trinity Capital

Trinity Capital April 12, 2013

Beyond the purple velvet drapes, the skeins of billowed gossamer, my hotel window looks down on the back gates of Trinity College. Up three floors and pierced by a late October sun, the room has been done up like a swinger’s pad, with leopard print and leather, with mirrors and conic shaded lights in orbit about the dark mass of the pillowed bed.

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The Barn Jester Steps In It

cow pies April 9, 2013

Those who think “nostalgia” is a bad word marking a bad sentiment can pucker my yonder socket.

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A Long Repentance: A Decade of Turning Away from (a Part of) the American Dream

car April 9, 2013

Including “repentance” in this title might lead you to believe that it is a theological reflection of some kind. After all, repentance is a religious word, is it not? And it is not a neutral religious word either. No, “repent”…

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Ruthie Leming’s (and Rod Dreher’s) Little Way

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[Cross-posted to In Medias Res]
Rod Dreher’s 2006 manifesto, Crunchy Cons…, was an inspiration (and provocation) to many, on both the left and the right. It wasn’t that the book was a tremendous intellectual break-through or an entirely new

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U.S. ‘Intervention’ in Syria Unlawful

600px-Syria_(orthographic_projection)_svg April 8, 2013

Proponents of Syria “intervention” did not seem to notice any irony as Secretary of State John Kerry, on the one hand, chastened Iraq for letting Iran use its airspace to aid President Assad’s regime in Syria,[1] and, they, on the…

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Our Slippery Slope into the Age of “Big Love”

Santorum April 5, 2013

Berwyn, PA.…  Many of us will recall the criticism Rick Santorum endured regarding this passage from a 2003 interview:
And if the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual [homosexual] sex within your home, then you

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Eating Local–Or Local Enough

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If I earn ten pennies in heaven for being a local food supplier, do I get five for being regional?

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The Season’s Over, And I’m For Sale

for sale April 3, 2013

Why doesn’t this annual game of musical chairs occur among faculty members?

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Second-Hand Sex

1354114_cherub April 2, 2013

Hillsdale, Michigan…. Perhaps it is a function of having been reared by two alums of Bob Jones University — where, let’s be clear, I did NOT go — but I continue to be amazed by the modern West’s nonchalance

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Whither the Public Library?

library April 1, 2013

Despite constant speculation about public libraries’ “relevan[ce] in the digital age,” and serious budget cuts caused by the recent recession, the American public library is not in crisis. Local governments have made no effort to drop libraries as a basic…

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Piers Sits Ryan in the Corner

March 28, 2013

Ryan Anderson may be the most courageous person in America. Who would willingly place himself in the company of Piers Morgan and Suze Orman for the sole purpose of being their punching bag – something he had to know was…

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March Madness and the Chief of Hypocrites

magicjohnson_display_image March 26, 2013

Never was a truer word spoken–not since “hell is other people.”

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