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Abuse and Argument, Mobilization and Persuasion

November 12, 2020

It's been a week, hasn't it?  Well, we can hope that the election is over, that Donald Trump is not permitted to run a coup by his GOP enablers, and that the United States will for now continue to exist as a constitutional republic.  (But if you needed more evidence that the GOP is deeply sick right now, the past week would provide it.)

But that's not what I'm looking at right now.  Right now I'm looking at...

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Abuse and Argument, Mobilization and Persuasion

November 12, 2020

It's been a week, hasn't it?  Well, we can hope that the election is over, that Donald Trump is not permitted to run a coup by his GOP enablers, and that the United States will for now continue to exist as a constitutional republic.  (But if you needed more evidence that the GOP is deeply sick right now, the past week would provide it.)

But that's not what I'm looking at right now.  Right now I'm looking at...

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Pre-election links

November 02, 2020

Hey all, just some distracting links at the top, and a couple political links at the bottom.  No big brain ideas.  

 

It's an important night.  A lot is at stake tomorrow, and in coming days.  I pray that we are shown mercy.  These are scary times.  But, as ever, we are the times.  All we can do is respond as best we can.

 

For now, some links:

 

I think...

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Intellectual life under Trump

October 29, 2020

Michelle Goldberg has a good column about this today.  Trump has indeed occupied too much of our minds.  

Some of that has been very much to the good--a renewed awareness (and use of the category) of white supremacy, a deeper awareness of the complexities and often savagery of American history, the recognition that a significant proportion of the population--say, 40%...

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Some links

October 26, 2020

Bet you missed them!  Well, here you go.

 

John Cavadini, one of the best scholars of Augustine writing today, on Rowan Williams, one of the most Augustinian theologians writing today. ...

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