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2021-09-25: A Deep Cut: The Green Knight (2021)

2021-05-05: annehelen.substack.com/p/in-real…

2021-05-04: Evangelical Culture Gets Parenting Wrong Linked article: “Keeping the Faith” by …

2021-05-03: mereorthodoxy.com Critical Theory as Method, Metanarrative, and Mood This is a phenomenal summary …

2021-04-26: The Problem of the New Right A review considering how ethnography influences the New Right political …

2021-04-26: The Splintering of the Evangelical Soul Three interlocking challenges identified to the evangelical …

2021-04-22: “As man he was baptized, but he absolved sins as God; he needed no purifying rites himself–his …

2021-04-20: How Black Lives Matter protests may affect police violence and murders - Vox

2021-04-11: How to Be White - Breaking Ground

2021-04-06: The Profound Eldritch Horror Of Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” - Boing Boing

2021-04-06: The Troubling Absence of Consent in OT Law and Narrative

2021-04-05: Best Muppets, Ranked Ruthlessly : NPR

2021-04-05: Movies to watch during the high school years (some are more apporpriate for freshman/sophomores, …

2021-03-31: ‎Gentle Cinema, a list of films by Doug Dillaman • Letterboxd

2021-03-31: Who is the Plenty Coups of the Christians?

2021-03-31: I am a Unit of One Curtis calls his most recent 6-part series “an emotional history of what went on …

2021-03-31: The Cohabitation Dilemma Comes for America’s Pastors - Christianity Today

2021-03-31: How Should Christians Preserve Marriage?

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2021-03-27: Lovely People

2021-03-26: Ode To The Roof Koreans - The American Conservative

2021-03-24: Christianity and Culture in an Age of Crisis - Mere Orthodoxy - Christianity, Politics, and Culture

2021-03-19: Man, lots of people are mad about Substack….

2021-03-16: How the West Lost Covid

2021-03-15: Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny - Blood Knife

2021-03-15: An excellent elaboration on “The Michael Scott Theory of Social Class”

2021-03-11: Too Many Needles This hits home big time. To return to information overload: this means treating …

2021-03-10: The Implications of the 6th of January - Reactions I love the take that Trump = The Mule from …

2021-03-09: Substack: The Magazine Maybe I’m an idiot, but… It feels like almost every week I’m encountering a new …

2021-03-09: Stockton’s Basic-Income Experiment Pays Off - The Atlantic

2021-03-08: Fantastic bit by Russell Moore on the nuances of “cancel culture”

2021-03-03: Biggie does Lovecraft youtube.com/watch

2021-03-02: www.nytimes.com

2021-02-21: Chronicles of Narnia Reading Order Around the time when the Narnia movies were produced, the publishers of the works (HarperCollins) …

2021-02-12: Senator Rubio’s Work

2021-01-30: feedproxy.google.com Portraits of U.S. Presidents, modernized

2021-01-30: fredrikdeboer.com you aren’t the shit you like

2021-01-25: Good analysis on police reform. The problem as I see it is that the right, which is broadly friendly …

2021-01-24: The Michael Scott Theory of Social Class – alexdanco.com

2021-01-20: The Seditionists Need a Path Back Into Society - The Atlantic

2021-01-20: When day comes, we ask ourselves, where can we find light in this never ending shade? The loss we …

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2021-01-19: The Return of the "Great Man" My understanding is that many (most?) historians disavow the “great man” theory of …

2021-01-14: mereorthodoxy.com/defining-…

2021-01-10: blog.ayjay.org essential reading for skeptics (and others)

2021-01-10: Four Seasons Total Landscaping: The Full(est Possible) Story

2021-01-08: www.tabletmag.com/sections/…

2021-01-07: blog.ayjay.org frivolity

2020-12-28: fredrikdeboer.com it’s all just arms and noses

2020-12-15: A Game Designer Analyses Q-Anon. Wow.

2020-12-15: Over Christmas I recommended Better Call Saul to my brother, calling it one of my top five shows. He …

2020-12-14: Holiday Gift Guide: Bringing France to You and Others - David Lebovitz

2020-12-14: The Case for One More Child: Why Large Families Will Save Humanity by Ross Douthat

2020-12-14: Russell Moore top 20 books of the last 20 years.. A very aspirational reading list. I’ve read …

2020-12-12: As he so often does, @ayjay looks at the reality with just enough of a perspective shift that what …

2020-12-11: Percent of Republicans who think that the 2020 election was illegitimate: 70% Percent of Republicans …

2020-12-02: Recent Good Podcasts - Advisory Opinions Advisory Opinions: David French and Sarah Isgur discuss recent news regarding legal matters. …

2020-12-02: Blowing Rock NC

2020-11-24: mereorthodoxy.com Markets and the Strangulation of the American Family

2020-11-06: Feed by MT Anderson I just finished re-reading Feed by M.T. Anderson. I had read it first about 10 years ago, and I …

2020-11-06: twitter.com/Ike_Saul/…

2020-11-06: There will probably be a lot of analysis in the upcoming weeks about the extent that Wokeness is …

2020-11-04: Here’s the interpretation: “Left wing” is no longer defined so much by economic …

2020-11-04: This meme could stand to get wider distribution.

2020-10-31: The 1619 Project: An Autopsy - The Dispatch

2020-10-29: This is the correct take. McConnell Played Trump gruber.micro.blogJohn Gruber …

2020-10-28: Swing state chaos: If Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania break for Trump, and …

2020-10-20: mereorthodoxy.com Honor Thy Boomer

2020-10-20: Dear Trump Voters: President Biden Would Not Be the End - by Quinton Skinner - North Mag - Oct, 2020 …

2020-10-16: See ACB and “sexual preference “

2020-10-16: I am grateful to Senator Sasse for finally articulating this criticism.

2020-10-16: The line between the New York Times Trump tax return expose and the New York Post Hunter Biden …

2020-10-14: It’s completely expected and understandable that politicians would act shocked and surprised …

2020-10-12: Thank you to Bret Stephens for speaking his mind, and for the New York Times for a rare moment of …

2020-10-09: Thoughts on Karate Kid I haven’t seen this movie since high school and Sarah had never seen it. But I’ve been …

2020-10-08: www.persuasion.community Kat Rosenfield deserves to be a syndicated advice columnist. So much good …

2020-10-07: Open Outbox 3 re: …

2020-10-05: bernoid.com/nature-jo…

2020-10-04: 8 Works of Fiction Every Christian Should Read Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Incidents in the Life …

2020-10-03: E-mail Addresses It Would Be Really Annoying to Give Out Over the Phone - McSweeney’s Internet …

2020-10-02: MOUTH DREAMS neilcic · Mouth Dreams

2020-09-29: theconvivialsociety.substack.com What Do Human Beings Need?: Rethinking Technology and the Good …

2020-09-28: A Few Thoughts on Sunday's Sermon I have really missed the chance to chat briefly about your sermons at the end of the service. …

2020-09-24: The framing of the #1619Project remains the same today as when we published in Aug. 2019: We …

2020-09-23: Surely the Democrats know that Amy Coney Barrett is a trap. After all, there is plenty of analysis …

2020-09-22: Open Outbox 2 In response to this review. (Also, so strange for somebody to go from this to that review. I mean, …

2020-09-15: Open Outbox 1 In response to this newletter posting: America’s Systemic Racism Conspiracy Mr. Erickson, I really …

2020-09-03: Movies my kids will probably watch, if I have anything to do with it: Elementary Age My Neighbor …

2020-08-09: ⌛️ the secret history of the secret ballot: Jill LePore on “Fresh Air” in fact, the secret ballot is a latecomer in American political culture. It isn’t really …

2020-08-08: Cult of Smart, by Fredrik deBoer Currently reading: The Cult of Smart by Fredrik deBoer 📚 I learned about this book listening to …