We Participate in Multitudes We Cannot Completely Articulate
Featured image is Work, by Fox Madox Brown. Our practices can be understood as games which have an existence surpassing the subjectivity of the players. But how are these games played? I believe, with...
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New York, New York is a Conservative Town
When I rose from Penn Station into Manhattan late this July, I expected to be greeted by a horrible smell. With my two older boys in tow (Thomas, 13, and Jack, 10), I entered Manhattan for the first...
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“Owl.” “Hooty owl.” “That’s not a real species.” In fairness to Dave, we were driving too quickly to pick out just what species it was. Also, the clacking nightmare made of madness and teeth menacing...
View ArticleMother of Exiles
Cryptoconservative moral psychologist Jonathan Haidt has delivered another important essay in light of the ascension of Donald Trump as the Republican nominee for POTUS. The piece follows his usual...
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Simple Greed
As I’m certainly the least-popular and least-educated Sweet Talker, my ideas aren’t formed from a deep dive into the academic literature, they’re based on experience and observation. I won’t deny...
View ArticleFarewell Gord Downie
Featured image is Grief by Josef Israels I was never really a Tragically Hip fan, and this isn’t really about the Hip. I’m a little too young and a little too western to be fully within the demo,...
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Social justice, mercy, and healing
Featured image is The Angel of Mercy, by Joseph Highmore, c. 1746. A deeply political knowledge of the world does not lead to a creation of an enemy. Indeed, to create monsters unexplained by...
View ArticleCoping With Contradiction
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) -Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself“ Featured image is Luncheon on the Grass, by Edouard Manet. Practices are...
View ArticleThe Intersection at the End of the World
“The most quintessentially American band to have ever existed, Sam,” Dave began as something of a preamble, “and mind you I’ve no love for the word ‘quintessential’ thanks to an alarming overuse of it,...
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A modest moral objectivism
Featured image is an iconic photo of the Nazi parade through Brandenburg Gate. Usually the passion with which I hold a position is directly proportional to how concrete the stakes are. Defending moral...
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