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Author: Sheila Marler

  • I Wish This Was Just Paranoia

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesI wish this was just paranoia, but it’s our reality. Trump’s takes authority by acting like he has authority. He doesn’t.

  • Project 2025 & the Mormons?

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    Reading Time: 6 minutesI’ve been re-reading an article from my files about the Mormon Mafia and the JFK assassination by John F. Sweeney. I haven’t written about Sweeney’s paper and I don’t intend to write about it today. It is quite damning and I don’t want more trouble in my life than I’ve already had.…

  • Mercy and Judgment in 2025

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    Reading Time: 6 minutesThis is an essay for politicians who seem to have forgotten the important relationship between mercy and judgment in 2025. It’s also for their colleagues and loved ones. If you’re wondering why I’m picking on politicians, it’s because there is a raging epidemic of politicians who don’t feel they have to answer…

  • Pope Francis

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesI should have known this would happen, but I never considered it. And now it’s time to say good bye to Pope Francis.

  • The Spirit of Comedy Without Humor

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    Reading Time: 8 minutesIn Kaplan’s view, and that of other literary critics cited by him, this work is a ‘special form of dry comedy’. Its effect is the spirit of comedy without humor.

  • Can Democrats Criticize the Enlightenment?

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesCan democrats criticize the Enlightenment? In Harold Kaplan’s analysis of modern literature, he doesn’t criticize the Enlightenment (late 17th to early 19th century), but he mentions it as a timeframe for a modern state of mind which has been detrimental to western thought.1 He doesn’t criticize the Enlightenment in Democratic Humanism and…

  • Modernism’s Contempt for the Human Intellect

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    Reading Time: 11 minutesThe skeptical mode is the source of modernism’s contempt for the human intellect. Or maybe it’s better to say modernism’s contempt for the human’s ability to know anything. Harold Kaplan1 says we have come to believe this mode is the strongest trait of an enlightened modern consciousness. Metaphysics might seem to be…

  • The Crisis of Knowledge

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    Reading Time: 5 minutesIn this series, I want to share my thoughts about Harold Kaplan’s book, The Passive Voice1. Kaplan deals with several related literary topics, but they all arise from the crisis of knowledge in modern intellectual history. I have some doubts about my part in this endeavor, which I’ll state briefly in this…

  • Guard Against Spiritual Contagion

    Guard Against Spiritual Contagion

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesDiego Fares SJ wrote an article in 2018 about ‘the spirit of fierceness‘. He said this spirit pervades all of human history. It has a certain dynamic–opposition against ‘the other’. I think Fares’s article is important because it provides tools to help us guard against spiritual contagion.

  • A Problem With the Progressive Conversation

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesThere is a problem with the progressive conversation. Progressives have apparently forgotten everything that has happened since the 2016 election. Maybe that’s why they keep trying to help the Democratic Party. They started doing this while the Biden administration was still in control and they continued through the Harris campaign. Now they’re…

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