James M. Patterson
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Type of Baptist who calls it “Remembrance, not Sacramento”
type of atheist who just says "the City of Paul, Minnesota"
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They accomplished this with Special Forces armored trucks with only heavy machine guns and two Apache helicopters that showed up at the end.
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There was no genocide in the New World. Genocide requires intent, and there is no upside in intentionally murdering millions of new productive, tax-paying subjects.
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Adrian Vermeule hardest hit.
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@MatthewSitman
Can you blame them for wanting to keep their car service? You know what DC is like.
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My wife and I at the UVA protests against massive department closures and moving most curriculum online. This was the first day of our honeymoon. And those signs were double-sided, were photographed by the press, and are now in the UVA archives!
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So, Deneen is trying to change the subject because he cannot defend what he did by recommending three thinkers whose critiques of liberalism relied on commitments that the Church rightly condemns. Does he think I won't notice? Or that you won't?
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Any figure who attempts to purge citizens from their own country is a tyrant, and Americans have a tradition when it comes to tyrants.
Salvaging what remains of the American people will require increasingly courageous action to deal with immigration. Shutting down the flow is vital of course. But to reverse the progress of the Great Replacement, you also have to rollback 70 years of development.
Illegal
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When I lived in Houston, driving for 3 hours was a normal thing to do. Not sure if that says more about Houston or the UK, though.
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So
@avemariauniv
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If I were the Federalist Society or associated with Ron DeSantis, I would avoid being associated with Adrian.
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If you're teaching an American Political Thought course, you should consider adding Rev. Absalom Jones. I usually use his 1808 Thanksgiving Day sermon on the end of the trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. There is a LOT going on.
An example of the Tocquevillian spirit of association, and a topic of the first chapter of my book manuscript on the idea of civil society in early black political thought.
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Hasn't fifty years of Rawls been too many already?
You guys have no idea how popular John Rawls is about to become
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Vance is the establishment. He is the GOP VP nominee. Trump picked him. Trump’s family runs the RNC. He could not be more establishment. That’s why he pivoted on abortion, too. He now holds the moderately pro-choice position that the establishment always had.
The Vance factor: bringing religion back into US politics whether the Establishment likes it or not
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The re-litigation of Hitler illustrates a point that I made in this article I wrote for Religion & Liberty. What has preserved the New Right against going fascist was entirely the sobriety of its self-appointed leadership. At the time, Yoram Hazony was a major leader, and he was
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Catholic Integralism is a tradition of thought that, rejecting the liberal separation of politics from concern with the end of human life, holds that political rule must order man to his final goal. Since, however, man has both a temporal and an eternal end, integralism holds tha
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I explain to my students every semester that our nation is run by 20-30 year old staffers and clerk from about ten or twelve colleges. They don’t believe me, and then when some of them move DC, I get that same message—“You were right.”
Our legislators are finally getting so old that people might actually start to ask who is actually running the country. (The answer is that it's a bunch of 30-year-old Hill staffers who work for the legislators.)
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I really liked Kevin's article, which should surprise no one. A few things I'd like to mention. Neo-integralism no longer is the subject of essays because, well, we know what it is and its advocates have moved into another stage of promoting it, namely seizing institutions.
American integralism has collapsed. Today,
@thedispatch
, I explain why this happened and what mainline conservatives can learn from it.
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Look, it’s fine to disagree with me, but I am allowed to express my misgivings about the content of the clip. That is how this app works.
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As a postscript to the most recent academic fracas, I wanted to mention that the shift from “scholar” to “academic” during the end of the 20th century was a disaster. Not a big Heidegger fan, but he was right about this:
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It's actually fine. Don't let people stress you out. Just be glad that you made it to Mass.
The Orans posture is not to be used by the laity!
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Excellent write-up of WVU. Confirms much of what I said the other day. Best parts:
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APSA has failed because it has succeeded, having drawn down all the pre-APSA culture on which it depended. We must now imagine a Post-APSA Order, one dedicated to the Highest Good of P > 0.05
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It’s important to understand the profound difference between Catholicism (op) and its demonic imitation Maurrassime (reply).
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Me, watching Indians Jones punch Nazis, “Who do I root for? Why? Did I miss some backstory?”
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@PhilipDBunn
Another problem with the detectors is the false positives from students using Grammarly.
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Interesting. Been obvious to me that this was happening but had no proof. So I felt like talking about it made me sound like a conspiracy theorist.
Looks like every second Tenet pundit was also peddling Orbán's propaganda, or even visited Hungary. Besides getting secret payments from Russia, it seems like they received speaking fees for talking at
@MCC_Budapest
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@InstituteDanube
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Why Postliberalism Failed
Twitter/X is changing the Block feature.
Your posts will be visible to anyone you block, but they will not be able to engage with them.
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Hungary and Russia are not religious countries. They just aren’t.
Tucker: "They hate Hungary because it's a Christian country. Nobody wants to say it, but it's true. That is enough to incite our policymakers in the United States and that is exactly why they hate Russia, by the way."
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You don't have to love these people, but you can't deny they look cool.
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If you’re not willing to stand up to the left on abortion, you can’t be trusted on anything else. The pro-life position is the pro-people position and I’m proud to be 100% pro-life.
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I am surprised that NatCons would turn down the textbook definition of industrial policy—even mock it—in favor of Russia expanding its sphere of influence over n Europe. The implication is that Russian interests are more important than those of US workers!
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They did the first time.
What if instead of forcing our children to become Christians, we let them choose which gods to worship. Does anyone honestly think they would choose Jesus?
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Postliberals don’t know who to vote for now.
Based on open sources, Tim Walz, the potential next Vice President of the United States, taught English for a year in China, spent his honeymoon in China, ran a business that took students to China, and traveled to China every year until 2003, & speaks a bit Chinese.
SHORT THREAD
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Many are asking me, “James, how did you meet your weight loss goal even while on vacation with your family?”
Easy! Norovirus.
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This take got dunked on a lot today, but I 100% posted like this on Facebook during the many years I spent on the job market. The market right now is very bad, and selection of candidates can feel almost random.
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Another outstanding essay by
@StMichael71
. For those interested in comparative political theory, read to the end, in which Fr. Rooney discusses Christian and Confucian political thought. Truly some of the most original stuff I’ve read.
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I think APSA would have survived if it hadn’t focused so much on political theory and historical methods and instead pushed for more quantitative work, especially in fields where one uses proxy measures that conform to one’s unexamined biases.
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