Matthew Walther
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Editor @thelampmagazine. Contributing writer @nytopinion. Writing a biography of John Henry Newman for @yalepress. More @heartuntonewman.
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Joined February 2013
With apologies in advance for the anarthrous noun modifier, some big news
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Huge potential here, especially if bands decided to put special non-album tracks on the other side as an inducement to fans who were going to buy the album anyway.
This is super interesting. Usually you buy full albums, but this new format could theoretically be used to distribute individual songs, a sort of promotional single recording sent to radio as a way to build interest in an upcoming full-length release. Could be huge.
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The NCAA: "Harbaugh ran a program that was largely dismissive of rules compliance. There was little, if any, emphasis on following the rules.".
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What definition of "bad" is underlying this kind of argument?.
moderate drinking actually is bad for you!. 1) even a small number of drinks causes social disinhibition, and disinhibition is actually pretty bad, because inhibitions is just a way of saying "having morals".2) your risk of a car accident rises at the first drink, not the 5th.
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The fact that this has to be said at all suggests that we really are a bunch of worthless degenerates.
We feel strongly that there is no place for betting on Little League games.
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It says a lot about the power of marketing that a new biography of Muriel Spark ("the most consummate artist of the twentieth century"?!) is being written about gushingly in publications that ignored the centenary of Ulysses and The Waste Land.
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Favorite book: The Lord of the Rings.Favorite poet: Belloc, Coleridge.Favorite song: The Beatles, "Help".Favorite season: Winter.Favorite characters in literature: Athena, Apollo.Favorite color: Light blue.Favorite flower: Violet.Favorite virtue: Faith.
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Thisbe Perpetua Walther was born on August 11, 2015, in Alexandria, Virginia.
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RT @jwilson1812two: Today's magnificent @prufrocknews is devoted entirely to Eliot's “The Hollow Men” at 100. Link to follow in reply. /1.
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Part of the problem is the shrill hectoring almost passive-aggressive rhetoric. Actual normal chill Americans—or whatever group they like to think of themselves as—who like ogling cheerleaders or whatever don't turn it into an identify politics thing.
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The entire American right is just a series of AI-worthy slop posts with some variation on "What's the matter LIB—drunk girls in skirts puking on each other while living their best lives? TRIGGERED by REAL AMERICA?" plus some crap about celebrities who probably hate them
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What does this mean, "humanizing fatherhood"? A bizarre non-sequitur. As far as "NFL legend" goes, uhh. .
Pro-life NFL legend Tim Tebow shares a video holding his baby girl while working—humanizing fatherhood. Get married. Have kids.
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A funny thing is that Paley's grandson, the great classicist F.A. Paley, became a Roman Catholic in 1846. In addition to his wide range of classical publications, this friend of Newman kept up his interest in nature—see his charming essay on Darwin and earthworms for Fraser's.
Hot take: John Henry Newman's relentless anti-evidentialism did a great deal of harm to the Church. He went out of his way to attack fruitful scholars like Paley. People lost their faith under his influence. His legacy shouldn't be celebrated.
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thought this guy was talking about Robert Pollard.
my Bob hot takes:.•2001 is the coolest he's ever looked > 1966.•the production on TooM takes away from the songs. every single one is better live.•there's 0 point in talking about albums that "might have been" they were released that way on purpose, there is no "alternative".
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Neither of course knew that St John had less than a year to live. There were a number of strange incidents like this near the end of his life.
On August 7, 1874, Newman warned Ambrose St. John (who had almost boarded a ship that sank two days later) not to get in any boating accidents. He also prepared to receive the Eliza "Sissy" Devas (née Ward) and her young husband at Rednall "when the weather is tolerably settled,".
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After his conversion in 1845, Newman's views about English politics are radically different—he becomes far less strident and he accepts that the idealized vision of church-state relations he had supported as a young man was simply a fantasy.
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Newman told his friend John Frederic Christie that Whately had "almost severed himself from Catholic Communion" by making a speech in the House of Lords in support of a bill allowing non-Christians to be elected to Parliament.
On August 6, 1833, Newman wrote in despair of the Anglican Archbishop of Dublin, his old mentor Richard Whately, author of the hilarious pamphlet "Historic Doubts Relative to Napoleon Buonaparte," well known for his vile table manners and owning a succession of terrifying dogs
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The Tractarians were like any other intellectual movement involving young men. Big plans were not always followed through with—and sometimes women at the periphery did the boring work. There was lots of infighting. Hurrell Froude wanted to "break" with Hugh James Rose. William.
On August 5, 1833, Newman wrote to John Keble wondering why the only person he knew who was passing around Keble's recent Assize Sermon (later called "National Apostasy") was his—that is, Newman's own—widowed mother Jemima.
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