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Saturday, June 27, 2020

Jay Scott’s Vietnam

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Re-reading Jay Scott nearly 30 years after his death in 1993, it is striking to see how forcefully he grappled with the Vietnam experience...
Friday, June 26, 2020

“When they said ‘repent’/I wonder what they meant?”

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“I’ve seen the future , brother/It is murder.” Paul gives consideration to a change of concerns , as he has experienced it, and casually f...
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Monday, June 22, 2020

Re: consideration of The Liberal Imagination

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Bowman has nudged me to apply a little more rigour to the question of “Wither (sic) Liberalism?” To that end I’ve opened Lionel Trilling’s...
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Friday, June 19, 2020

Post-post-Jacobs-script

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June 19, Post-post- Jacobs- script: now that I’ve read the three posts and followed most of the links included, I’m quite a bit cooler tow...
Thursday, June 18, 2020

Alan Jacobs vs. Que Sera Sera

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Further to my fretting over the health of the North American Liberal Tradition: “You ever ask yourself, 'Just what is the freakin...
Monday, June 15, 2020

I read the news today. Oh, boy...

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I read Ross Douthat  on occasion, to give my liberalism a bit of a gut-check. I've never been much tempted to link to anything he's ...
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Wednesday, June 10, 2020

The Great Emergence, Hiding In Plain Sight?

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Like many other things we have noted, the tension toward changing things externally into new forms, as opposed to reworking them internally...