Kirby Mountain
November 13, 2018
Authority, empire, and the devolution of liberalism
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In the recent centennial commemoration of the end of the first “world war” (ie, the beginning of the second) French President Emmanuel Macro...
November 1, 2018
The heroic and the mundane
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‘The absolute is eternity. The relative is day-to-day existence. These are the two fundamental tropes of our lives. We hold the absolute at ...
October 28, 2018
The almost inescapable we
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‘To protect ourselves we use the most potent marker of distance we know, the line of demarcation that passes between “we” and “they.” The Na...
October 19, 2018
The teleological error of biography
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‘The issue with biography as a genre, and this is as true of autobiography as it is of the memoir, is that the author purports to be omnisci...
October 7, 2018
Equality in language only
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‘After writing this yesterday morning, I took Heidi and John to the nursery, where I was putting in a shift. The staff told me I could get o...
October 6, 2018
Viewpoints
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This week’s The Commons , out of Brattleboro, Vermont, dedicates its “ Voices ” section to “The Supreme Court Hearings and the Trauma of Sex...
October 2, 2018
Paul Krugman defends his privilege
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Gary Taustine comments in reply to Paul Krugman’s opinion piece “The Angry White Male Caucus: Trumpism is all about the fear of losing trad...
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