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Mailbag: Lynching and Vigilante Justice
What differentiates Luigi Mangioni from Kyle Rittenhouse and Daniel Perry? From the KKK?
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The Tyrannies of Abstractions
The seductive perils of seeing human beings as instances of categories
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"Sin" is a synonym for "Finitude"
Even atheists have to deal with the consequences of not being God
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The Violence We Carry
Lynching, then and now
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Political violence is especially bad when done in your name
Against "Everything is violence except actual violence, which is fine"
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Regime Change Is Built In To Liberalism
Deneen's critiques are incisive and also capable of being absorbed
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November 2024

After Hyperpolitics
Or: the political is the personal
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Why is gratitude so challenging?
Two quick lessons from Heidegger and Joyce
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Four thought experiments on the limits of "liberation"
Imagine two people on a third date who decide to have sex for the first time.
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The Messy Human Middle
Transformation as somewhere between revolution and submission, and how I came to see this
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Liberalism after Despair
Or: righteous anger as a worthless currency
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The Center Must Hold
Democracy is the least-worst product of our fallen imaginations
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