How is it that no one turned on that fan? Is patriotism dead? Read more
How is it that no one turned on that fan? Is patriotism dead? Read more
"Muscular Christianity" is rooted in fear -- specifically in fear of the physically stronger, and more numerous, working class. Muscular Christianity took that fear and responded by saying, "We'd better starting working out." Read more
French, like many other vocal "conservatives," doesn't understand what consent means and doesn't understand it's moral significance. Specifically, he's deeply confused about the distinction between necessary and sufficient. Read more
"Essentially what the dollar stores are betting on in a large way is that we are going to have a permanent underclass in America. It’s based on the concept that the jobs went away, and the jobs are never coming back." Read more
Nicolae’s super powers seem different from the book’s other supernatural events. It's one thing to make God a character, portraying God with divine powers. It's something else to suddenly tell us that the president of Romania can also work divine miracles. Read more
What might it be like, 2,000 years from now, for some future reader to try to make sense of "American Pie"? The culture that produced it would be long gone, along with all of the cultural referents it relies on to communicate. Read more
Citizens Bank messed up and they say they’re taking “full responsibility” for that. But what they’re actually taking is $200 in pure profit. It's a very lucrative "mistake" -- I wonder how often they make it. Read more
The other big current story with an "everybody knows" angle involves Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee, who has decided not to run for re-election. Corker seems to have found this liberating -- speaking with newfound bluntness and candor about the president nominated and elected to lead his own party. Read more
"Everybody knows" was a theme in two otherwise disparate stories in the news over this weekend -- one involving a sexually abusive Hollywood producer, the other involving a Republican senator's war of words with a Republican president. Read more
The real dispute here is not between liberal and conservative traditions, but rather about the meaning of texts and the reading of texts. It is the difference between fundamentalism and everything that is not that. Read more
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