Category: A Conversation About the Conversation
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The Most Important Skill for 2025 is Ignoring Trump
Reading Time: 2 minutesSince 2015, we’ve had good reasons for our continued participation in this one-sided conversation. I say one-sided because progressives have been the only ones actually carrying on a conversation. I believe Trump and his cronies, among others, function as a distraction and an elaborate insult to voters. Therefore, I argue that the…
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Gender Rights are a Litmus Test for Left-ness
Reading Time: 2 minutesAside from the climate crisis there is general agreement that individuals on the left don’t have to share the same religious beliefs or ideology. However, that belief is misleading. A focus on Gender rights seems to be an ideological requirement. The issue of Gender rights has become a litmus test for left-ness.…
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Steve Bannon is a Pretend Traditionalist
Reading Time: 2 minutesI recently found a key date that confirms my suspicions about Steve Bannon’s so-called Traditionalism. I’ve long suspected that Bannon isn’t a real traditionalist. To be clear, Bannon is not a real traditionalist in the same sense that Donald Trump was never a real candidate. Bannon piggy-backed on this conversation in the…
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Covington High School in an Unforgiving World
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen conservative writers defamed Nathan Phillips in order to shore up their own virtuous image I thought it best to ignore them. Never mind the fact that Nathan Phillips and his people pose no threat to them, or that they don’t have sufficient resources to retaliate. But the Covington High School saga…
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In Search of the Citizen
Reading Time: 2 minutesToday the Washington Post is counseling us about how we should speak of the dead. In my opinion, it’s time to think about the living. We are in search of the citizen. But apparently, columnist Steven Petrow objects to the criticism of Justice Antonin Scalia that came out so soon after his…
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Toward Dialogue With the Church
Reading Time: 4 minutesA recent article about the Pope’s address to the European parliament poses questions that I think many of us have been asking ourselves. For example, secularists might be asking why it is important for them to move toward dialogue with the Church. “The Pontiff wasn’t the most obvious person to deliver hard…