Monday, December 10, 2018

Crooked Timber

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Okay, Whit, I give. You want to talk philosophy , then let's talk. Christianity (in)famously describes us all as the crooked timbe...
Saturday, December 8, 2018

Tracking the Wild Rino

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With the continued carping from the Republican back benchers, the NeverTrumps, it seems like a moment to clarify who is and who is not a re...

Objectively Subjective

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In the Introduction to Authorship and Authority in Kierkegaard's Writings (2018 Bloomsbury Academic) , the editor Joseph Westfall says ...
Friday, November 23, 2018

The Importance of Metaphysics

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And now for something completely different. Ilya Somin tells us that ... the enormous diversity of both originalist and living-constit...
Sunday, November 4, 2018

J'Accuse!

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In trying to unravel the roiling cauldron of charge and counter-charge that was the Kavanaugh confirmation 'process,' I came acros...
Saturday, September 15, 2018

The Meaning of Meaning

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I stumbled on this interesting exchange the other day - a bit late, but it touches on an issue near and dear to my heart. It is between Ala...
Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Justice Takes a Holiday

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions gave us the raison d'etre of his term as AG the other day. Here it is in pertinent part. While I am...
Thursday, February 15, 2018

Playing the Angles

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Jeff Sessions recently sang the praises of our "Anglo-American heritage of law enforcement," and the latest unpredictable outrage ...
Tuesday, February 13, 2018

In Like Flynn

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The news cycle flies along at its typical breathtaking pace. Mannafort becomes Weinstein becomes Rob Porter becomes Kim Yo-jong becomes Bann...
Thursday, January 18, 2018

Gobbledygook

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It is of the essence of the modern to invent specialty languages for an academic discipline. This is traceable, I think, to the collapse of...