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Place. Limits. Liberty.
Joined March 2009
Just a reminder that we have a weekly email that highlights what's happening on the Porch. You can sign up here:
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Clicked on the link to see what he said about my essay, then ended up reading several of the others. Thankful to be included on such a great list!
In which I recommend essays by @ezraklein, @matthewwalther, @matteburdette, @McCormackJohn, @MichaelRWarren, @larissaphillip, @Tyler_A_Harper, and others.
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In which I recommend essays by @ezraklein, @matthewwalther, @matteburdette, @McCormackJohn, @MichaelRWarren, @larissaphillip, @Tyler_A_Harper, and others.
In this week's Water Dipper, Jeff Bilbro recommends essays about attention, housing, and subscriptions:
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In this week's Water Dipper, Jeff Bilbro recommends essays about attention, housing, and subscriptions:
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Ezra Klein wrestles with the limitations of liberalism in the face of big tech efforts to capture users’ attention.
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Jason Peters introduces the new issue of Local Culture on work and leisure: "It is possible—and I would argue necessary—to take pleasure in your work, just as it is possible to work hard at what you take pleasure in."
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Wading in a river and lumberjacking in the woods are at once work and play, play and work, and in this they resemble anything we might do for instrumental ends and yet, at the same time, take a great...
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Stephen McGinley: The interior reality of the mailman and mailwoman is thus the necessary interior of all men and women: a bringing together in mutual goodwill and trust that bears fruit for our common good. https://t.co/2NGqS55onv
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This stranger, rain or shine, snow or hail, more religiously than I prayed as a child, lifted the flap and dropped letters into my family’s home.
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CITIZEN HUMANISTS: "It’s time we started talking about citizen humanists. While the so-called professional humanities in higher education are imperiled, there are many other, non-academic ways to be involved in the humanities.... What would we call The Catherine Project?"
Elizabeth Stice: Embracing the term citizen humanities can make it easier for citizen humanists to find each other and for all kinds of humanities projects to collaborate. https://t.co/37s9D5ZFXo
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Emily Harrison: For minors who do not have an underlying medical concern, the negative effects of such digital poison can, as documented by Haidt, cause a sort of phantom anxiety and depression for an entire generation. https://t.co/9V9IQEeohF
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The negative effects of digital poison can, as documented by Haidt, cause a sort of phantom anxiety and depression for an entire generation.
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And finally, my review for @FrontPorchRepub on the new memoir by @herdyshepherd1 'The Place of Tides,' a wonderful book: https://t.co/bAFGqvoDYI
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You’re forgiven, your future right here, given for you.
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Second, for @FrontPorchRepub I wrote a review of Beartooth, one of the better recent novels on masculinity: https://t.co/3TrxYQspCa
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I found that Wink has not simply played haphazardly with an abundance of tropes but collected them together, arranged them in a pile—so he could then throw them aside and press deeper into the...
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In today's essay, Elizabeth Stice reviews the Ken Burns film "The American Revolution:" "'The American Revolution' ... asks us to reacquaint ourselves with the past." https://t.co/cATOxerDTT
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No filmmaker is as concerned with engaging Americans in our own stories and in our own democracy.
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Contra Machinam: An Appeal for an AI Resistance https://t.co/nT74J9vbNg
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Tradeoffs we should not be willing to tolerate.
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In today's essay, Emily Ruddy ponders a Christian's relationship to music. https://t.co/E1GnMy9Enf
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While I’m past the point of burning my records and musical books, and I’m no longer having to evacuate coffee shops because “Sympathy for the Devil” is playing, I still struggle with…
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"Embracing the term citizen humanities can make it easier for citizen humanists to find each other and for all kinds of humanities projects to collaborate."
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The term "citizen humanities" argues for the complementary nature of work by academics and non-academics.
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In which I recommend essays by @NicolasFuRivero, @teachdlightmove, @skurutz, @Chase_Steely, and others.
In this week's Water Dipper, Jeff Bilbro recommends essays about Milosz, Butz, and Han.
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In this week's Water Dipper, Jeff Bilbro recommends essays about Milosz, Butz, and Han.
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Eric Miller pens a beautiful review of Wendell Berry’s new novel and reflects on the stories and structures that hold sustaining cultures in place.
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Elizabeth Stice: Embracing the term citizen humanities can make it easier for citizen humanists to find each other and for all kinds of humanities projects to collaborate. https://t.co/37s9D5ZFXo
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The term "citizen humanities" argues for the complementary nature of work by academics and non-academics.
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Adam Smith: The more discriminating we become, the better we get at appreciating "this" and what’s missing from "that," the harder it is to recover the child’s ability to see what’s present even in "that." https://t.co/z2qBdmb3lK
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A whole-hog way of seeing.
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The "loss of common texts" problem is, perhaps, a reason why politics has gone off the rails. We're still trying to create stories -- but because we don't have any surviving long-form fiction media, we have to build our stories piecemeal out of what's actually happening.
In today's piece, Jon Schaff reviews Nadya Williams's recently-published book "Christians Reading Classics:" "To make the past come alive and make it speak to our own world is a rare gift. Nadya Williams has that gift in abundance." https://t.co/UDMWQAfwAQ
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Pagans and Prophets: Nadya Williams on the Wisdom of the Ancients @FrontPorchRepub @NadyaWilliams81
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Williams gives readers who may be either loosely familiar with or even quite ignorant of the authors she treats a brief introduction to their importance and what beauty can be found in each of them.
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