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New York City. November 2, 2025. A Night of Poetry with Ben Myers Join us for an evening of stirring words and unforgettable prose lead by former Poet Laureate for the State of Oklahoma Ben Myers. @BenMyersPoet https://t.co/K3wcrQAz1o

“The internet, he observes, has done to home ownership what pornography has done to human sexuality: take a magical, intricate, and layered pursuit built on trust and presence and long-term relationships and turn it into a frantic and futile search for fast, facile gratification

“What does this real estate obsession mean? We ogle houses because what we want is a home, which is much less about price per square foot and much more about a life worth living.” @liel

“Although the website was started to help people rent, buy, or sell homes, data suggests that 83 percent of all of Zillow’s users surf the site with no intention of engaging in any transaction whatsoever. All they want to do is gawk at that ranch-style house on 1.3 acres in a

Home, Not Real Estate by Liel Leibovitz @liel https://t.co/0DohetYrvK

“The entire thrust of the policy is to make something unethical (IVF) more widely practiced. Such a policy is itself unethical. So while Americans won’t be required to violate their conscience, our public policy will promote IVF more now than ever before.” @RyanTAnd

“The details are still being promulgated, but, as White House officials explained it, there will be no IVF mandate or direct government subsidies for IVF. Those who feared something akin to the Obama contraception mandate or taxpayer funding of abortion can breathe a sigh of

“Alas, the White House event displayed no sensitivity to—or even awareness of—these concerns. But it wasn’t an outlier. Most Americans are unaware of these concerns. Indeed, truth be told, most church-attending Christians are blissfully unaware—because the Church has done such a

Trump’s IVF Policy Could Be Worse, But It’s Still Bad by Ryan T. Anderson @RyanTAnd https://t.co/dBcxXflxRw

“it’s clear that the BritCard is a solution in search of a problem. Because what can’t be said is that the problem is the people themselves.” @AshleyAFrawley for @firstthingsmag

One additional thing to point out: it is challenging, to say the least, to demand more moral leadership from our politicians than we get from our pastors. The Church’s relative silence is a scandal. A key graf from my @firstthingsmag essay: https://t.co/eKe36Qt0Da

“This is the era of 'infinite envelopment,' as French economist Laurent Baronian put it: Capitalism no longer so much expands outward through grand projects like railways, but instead turns inward, sealing leaks and regulating flows.” @AshleyAFrawley

“We now live in the purgatory of decline, knowing that there can be no future that looks different from today, but only the same forever with tighter controls. Surveillance may start with convenience. But given its underlying logic, it will not stop at knowing us.”

“The BritCard is only the most visible recent shift toward a governance model increasingly based on a public-health-style form of population risk management.” @AshleyAFrawley

Digital IDs and the Dream of Universal Compliance by Ashley Frawley @AshleyAFrawley https://t.co/A67VfripaU

My initial reaction to the Trump administration’s IVF policy at @firstthingsmag There is a lot of work yet to be done for those of us who believe in sound reproductive ethics. https://t.co/eKe36Qt0Da

My big takeaway from Trump's generic mifepristone approval is that one unintended consequence may be a lot more culpability for women who abort their children. You won't regret subscribing to @firstthingsmag

“Both books shy away from policy, but what each calls for is really a precursor to policy as such: a change in how we see. We must relearn to perceive the normative, homeostatic, interdependent dimension of life for what it is: not an illusion to be dispelled by empiricism, an

“Both make valuable contributions in the face of an epistemological challenge whose roots lie deep in the past: How can we resolve a crisis that resists naming? But both stop short, for different reasons, of the metaphysics that dare not speak its name.” @moveincircles

“Both writers set out to make a case for the importance of dependence and care to human flourishing. Sargeant’s book, subtitled A Feminist Manifesto, tackles this question in the context of women, mothering, and our universal dependence on one another. The Care Economy explores