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Searching for Something to Celebrate

Searching for Something to Celebrate For several days in late June, a black Ford F-250 pickup with Wyoming plates took over multiple parking spaces on a street in my Brooklyn neighborhood. An outsized exhibit of compensatory masculine menace—knobby tires, raised suspension, bulging fenders—it was for good measure bristling with aggressively pro-Trump bumper stickers, decals, and banners. There were warnings and wisecracks about immigrants and trans people, the “Biden crime family” and “stolen...

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Book Tour or Campaign Stump?

Book Tour or Campaign Stump? The reviews of Vice President J. D. Vance’s new book Communion are starting to roll in, and the consensus is that this sequel to his bestselling Hillbilly Elegy is as much a political accounting as it is a spiritual memoir. Still, the subtitle—“Finding My Way Back to Faith”—promises that the book will discuss Vance’s conversion story to Catholicism, so it’s not surprising that much of the chatter on the book-tour circuit has focused on questions of religion and mo...

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Culture

Tyler, Nabeel, and Jackson on French thinkers

Nabeel: (57:47) …For example, there’s a French thinker called Jacques Derrida. I probably should go and read him at some point, but I’m not entirely convinced there is a there there, and I don’t know anyone who swears by it. If Tyler told me, “Nabeel, you are missing a big piece of your life by […] The post Tyler, Nabeel, and Jackson on French thinkers appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Related StoriesMy Conversation with Joanne PaulWhat should I ask Daron Acemoglu?Jackson Dahl podcasts w...

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Society

Sexual Ethics Is a Social Justice Issue

Pope Leo XIV recently stated that “We tend to think that when the church is talking about morality, that the only issue of morality is sexual. And in reality,. The post Sexual Ethics Is a Social Justice Issue appeared first on First Things

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