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Reversion, Reconciliation, and Restoration: Toward Tranquility in the Current Empire
Looking Back Almost twenty years ago, I began troubling the word peace. Like many of us, I had long imagined peace as the cessation of violence, the arrival of stillness, the mutual exhale after the fire. But something in the… Continue reading
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From Republic to Serfdom: Misreading Rome in America’s Rural Imagination
Introduction The recent interview with Ammon Bundy in The Salt Lake Tribune highlights a recurring theme among certain rural conservatives: the belief that the expansion of government welfare signals the decline of a once-great republic. Bundy’s assertion that the U.S.… Continue reading
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Love’s Generative Nothingness: A Philosophical Reflection
Original Spontaneous Insight Love is making something out of nothing. Creatio ex nihilo. Love makes, builds, creates connections where none are and a life together that has not yet been lived. Upon no thing can anyone discover such a possibility.… Continue reading
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Why the Right Is Wrong About Critical Race Theory | Truthout
Great interview with philosopher Tim Gordon. Very much worth a full read; Gordon’s works are also worth your time. That is, IF you really want to understand Critical Race Theory [CRT] and not just take for granted the strawmen arguments… Continue reading
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Interpreting thru Maize meanings written in light
I get to work alongside amazing youth. Here are a couple of YouTubes from two of my siblings who have shared with me their most current projects. I wanted to share it with my friends and colleagues who sometimes stumble… Continue reading
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NO ONE EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION… WELL, MAYBE SOME OF US DO.
GETTING BACK INTO PUBLIC THINKERING† Since finishing my dissertation, I have not written nearly as much even in my journals as I used to do. I think the break is over now, however. The last few weeks have gotten me… Continue reading
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Beings of Enlightened Belief Are We…
Surely some of us are tired. As I get older, as my spouse gets older, we are often very tired. Very exhausted. It can be overwhelming. But what helps us—how we frankly help each other as friends find freedom—is reminding… Continue reading
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Diana & Julia: A Friendship Through Correspondence
This post celebrates the 101st birthday of Diana Kennedy on March 3rd. In 2019, Special Collections began acquiring materials from British food … Diana & Julia: A Friendship Through Correspondence Continue reading
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Siren Song Society: Profound Boredom – Authentic Leisure – Existential Liberation
offer these connections to encourage people to be okay with boredom–to not see every break in labor or in study or in whatever as requiring us to find something to amuse ourselves into utter alienated distraction. Continue reading
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Carnival Storm Drain, or the Outflow of Transistance
transistance does not flood-into our thinkering as the eradication of nihilism–shorting-out the negating power–but rather flows-out as a transformative process towards a broader, more inclusive engagement with reality. Continue reading
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