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Jan 10
Zuckerberg=Trump?
Thinking today about Mark Zuckerberg’s “free speech” turn and the refashioning of Facebook in the mold of X. It seems like the cultural...
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Nov 12, 2024
Conference Presentation: Anscombe's Elephants (Intention and Creative Writing)
(See paper here for footnotes) (See slides here ) Introduction D.G. Meyers begins his history of academic creative writing with a story...
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Jun 12, 2024
Sunday Thinking: Suan Sonna in Conversation with Austin Suggs
I’ve been ruminating on Suan Sonna and Austin Suggs’ recent discussion on Suggs’ YouTube channel. It brought out something I take to be...
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Jun 10, 2024
Black Holes And Moral History
Madeline Cash is doing something really smart in Earth Angel.[1] Her’s are stories of a certain kind of moral situation. It's a situation...
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May 16, 2024
Beowulf, Tradition, and Alasdair Macintyre
The Old English scholar John Niles charges the immense success of philological scholarship in Beowulf with obscuring more basic questions...
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May 10, 2024
The Ontology of Feminism: Some Thoughts on Rebecca Tuvel's Kerfuffle
This an issue which may be old news to some. But I've talked with feminists who don't know anything about this debate so may be worth it...
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Apr 30, 2024
Capital and Christianity
Some powerful critique here by Walter Benjamin on the emergence of capitalism and protestant religion—seems to be hand in glove with...
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Apr 25, 2024
Fat Feminism For Sale
On the popular YouTube series Hot Ones, Khloe Kardashian discussed a photograph taken of her for Complex Magazine's 2015,...
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Apr 25, 2024
Literary-Easter-Theory With Denise Levertov
I think it’s been since Kant that when we hear the word “mystery” we hear the wrong thing. “Faith” too. For us these words explain things...
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Apr 19, 2023
A Thinker for Theorist: Conceptual Schemes and Structuralism
Donald Davidson’s 1973 essay “On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme” has been widely applied due to the epistemological range of its...
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Apr 14, 2023
Sunday Thinking: Does Protestantism Work?
This will be the first of a string of posts reflecting on my conversion from Protestantism to Catholicism. If you’re a friend and you...
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Jan 24, 2023
Nobody's Foucault But Mine
I should start this by saying that I love Foucault. I am not a follower but there is no one who brings it harder, is more brilliant, or...
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Jan 3, 2023
Sunday Thinking: Some Christmas Theology
Mother of God of Belozersk, Fr. Silouan Justiniano 2012. Egg tempera and gold on gessoed panel, 18 x 32 in. Given the season, I’ve...
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Dec 21, 2022
Reading, Writing, and Other Fetishes
Mark Rothko, No. 10, 1950. Yesterday I asked my wife to read five pages of a story I am writing. The notes she gave were predictably...
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Dec 11, 2022
Sunday Thinking: Sex and The Eucharist
What follows is something that will pop up from time to time. Think of it as a series on the blog, or if the blog were a house, a certain...
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Sep 22, 2022
William Van Wert Prize Finalist!
Good news this morning: I discovered I am a finalist for the William Van Wert Prize in Short fiction. Big thanks to those judges at...
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Sep 21, 2022
A Thinker for Theorists
Prolegomenon What follows are some notes. They regard a research topic I’m entertaining which may work toward some dissertation ideas....
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Jul 26, 2022
Abortion and Religion: Athens, Jerusalem, or... ?
In a recent guest essay in the New York Times, Linda Greenhouse puts forward an argument which I’ve heard often among friends and...
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Jun 11, 2022
Thinking About X
Before our news feeds were dominated by the tragedy in Texas (about which I had thoughts) I had intended to write this post. So, it's...
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May 25, 2022
On The Murder of Children
There is a certain quality to horror which is disorienting, like a sudden breaking of faith. The ice drops from beneath you, the yellow...
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