Living in the Wreckage

I dwell in this wreckage but the rent is cheap --Vigilantes of Love

Monday, November 18, 2024

Not the Same

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You know what's sad? Watching someone you once respected devolve into an unserious, irrational partisan. It makes you wonder if maybe th...
Wednesday, August 29, 2018

On Being a Single Issue Voter: Or Why Abortion is Still the Most Important Issue (To Me)

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The refrain is repeatedly heard among evangelicals of a more progressive sort these days that "you can't be a single issue voter....
Monday, August 13, 2012

Hope?

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Why is hope such a difficult thing to hold onto? Why does it feel so much more likely that nothing will turn out like you want it to, that u...
Wednesday, March 07, 2012

Blue Collar Intellectuals by Daniel Flynn: A Book Review

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Daniel Flynn’s “Blue Collar Intellectuals” tells the story of several prominent thinkers and writers of the mid-twentieth century who eithe...
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Wednesday, February 01, 2012

On the Need to Please Others

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I have struggled my entire life with needing to please other people. At times this has placed me in situations of mostly unnecessary misery....
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Thursday, January 26, 2012

Reality vs Ideology

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I recall my perplexity upon finishing Solzhenitsyn’s “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” for the first time. I knew that the book had w...
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Thursday, January 12, 2012

Where I Am

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About six months ago, I wrote here about my decision to leave my stable, decent paying job with health insurance in order to move 50 miles a...
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