The Curious Engineer

The Homebound Symphony

2017–2019

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December 2019

  1. summing up
  2. unforthcoming attractions
  3. a partial fix
  4. something strange
  5. one man’s view of Christmas
  6. attention and sympathy
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  8. 37710 2
  9. 37707 2
  10. 37704 2
  11. Fwiw
  12. a sacrifice
  13. on not owning my turf
  14. wealth distribution
  15. Hidden
  16. oh for the normally bad
  17. Messrs Bumpus
  18. Lucy Ellmann and old books
  19. futurity: an Advent thought
  20. excerpt from my Sent folder: to my editors
  21. Martin Luther and the Second Advent
  22. letter from a reader
  23. a better internet
  24. 37635 2
  25. it me
  26. motivated reasoning, part gazillion
  27. genealogists wanted

November 2019

  1. an exercise in interpretation
  2. resuming normal activities
  3. Automata, Animal-Machines, and Us
  4. I’m okay with this
  5. Raising Kael
  6. how people change
  7. obliviousness
  8. so much goodness
  9. 37573 2
  10. 37563 2
  11. 37551 2
  12. Triode
  13. 37546 2
  14. 37537 2
  15. 37534 2
  16. the command to be reconciled
  17. on lost causes
  18. 37525 2
  19. revelation
  20. Volume Control
  21. excerpt from my Sent folder: poor
  22. Fish on freedom
  23. Tim Cook’s master plan
  24. 37505 2
  25. need-love
  26. two points about A Hidden Life
  27. the call
  28. Scared
  29. this is the future Arsenal supporters want
  30. it’s official …

October 2019

  1. 37467 2
  2. on blogging
  3. Xhaka is not the problem
  4. options
  5. 37456 2
  6. 37454 2
  7. Manzhouli
  8. toss them out of the window
  9. 37441 2
  10. credit, blame, and the unrewindable tape
  11. teachers at the margins
  12. 37422 2
  13. what really matters in this vale of tears
  14. Ipad os
  15. against lectures
  16. all fears unwarranted
  17. 37404 2
  18. 37401 2
  19. 37397 2
  20. where the USMNT is headed
  21. the most important public issue
  22. 37391 2
  23. 37388 2
  24. A mystery partly resolved
  25. ethical evaluation
  26. 37368 2
  27. I can see clearly now
  28. 37361 2
  29. China syndrome follow-up
  30. the new China syndrome
  31. 37338 2
  32. 37334 2
  33. Church Repair: 1
  34. 37317 2

September 2019

  1. excerpt from my Sent folder: criticism
  2. alternative headline
  3. textless Brexit flowchart
  4. look at what came in the mail
  5. The Queen and the Duke
  6. Monk’s specs
  7. John Mitchell
  8. 37264 2
  9. intellectuals and influencers
  10. evangelicalism redux
  11. about Ruskin
  12. climate hope
  13. Monk and crew
  14. 37243 2
  15. consolidation
  16. 37217 2
  17. confuser
  18. 37210 2
  19. monosyllabic
  20. Bart and cherry
  21. Unsure
  22. inequality
  23. Latka
  24. what can’t be changed
  25. terror and history

August 2019

  1. presentism revisited
  2. inaccessible
  3. chronological snobbery
  4. compromises
  5. Christianity and capitalism reconsidered
  6. eyeballs
  7. nationalism and religion
  8. the most dreadful of gods
  9. vengeance
  10. posture
  11. Great
  12. a road not taken
  13. here and there

July 2019

  1. the airless room
  2. on social acceleration
  3. bookmaking
  4. the most literary decade
  5. neighbors
  6. the greatest of the Wedgwoods
  7. this is your mind on presentism
  8. Jamesian aphasia
  9. this sickness is not unto death
  10. Chapter 43
  11. Unscoured

June 2019

  1. a scholarly mystery
  2. Ruin
  3. disobedience
  4. excerpt from my Sent folder: localism
  5. after the platforms
  6. Trying
  7. excerpt from my Sent folder: civility
  8. responsible scholarship and the growth of Christianity
  9. 36911 2
  10. the theater of concurrence
  11. Realpolitik
  12. 36891 2
  13. fair play to you
  14. Ahmari revisited

May 2019

  1. to put the point plainly
  2. Middle-Aged Moralists
  3. activists and administrators
  4. waking into the world
  5. HyperCard
  6. death recorded
  7. plain text and WordPress
  8. Musée à croissance illimitée
  9. voting with the Sparrows
  10. the shy voter problem
  11. indie web in the New Yorker
  12. reasonably worthwhile blog posts from last year
  13. “the corporate monster is always the corporate monster”
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  15. 36769 2
  16. James Madison
  17. Advice
  18. ways books go awry
  19. #ShunTheTake
  20. working the refs
  21. what dogs think

April 2019

  1. Les Murray is dead
  2. the strange pleasure of the mob
  3. plugged into the machine
  4. debt and forgiveness
  5. 36696 2
  6. 36688 2
  7. the building on the Île de la Cité
  8. 36679 2
  9. 36677 2
  10. scale is the enemy
  11. “Lord, make me an idiot”
  12. British eco-fascism
  13. 36667 2
  14. 36662 2
  15. extremists
  16. Buruma reflects

March 2019

  1. taxonomies
  2. getting a new Mac up and running
  3. intersections
  4. the right side
  5. when political prophecy fails
  6. Apple News vs. RSS
  7. cost-benefit ratios
  8. a legal clarification
  9. in memoriam
  10. a return to Narnia
  11. interim tech report
  12. success robots
  13. a case of simple theft
  14. on rum and baseball
  15. academic wishful thinking
  16. a clarification, eighteen years later
  17. Remembering David Martin
  18. a plea to journalists
  19. futurists and historians
  20. liturgical reform
  21. Merton and the quest for God
  22. Diderot
  23. a very, very great deal

February 2019

  1. out on the town
  2. Nested
  3. placeholder for further reflection
  4. Kathryn Tanner’s altar call
  5. three stories to reflect on
  6. stock and flow in newsletters
  7. the fish in the fish store window
  8. teaching the Gorgias
  9. two thoughts on Twitter
  10. furthermore….
  11. on cultural socialism and metaphysical capitalism
  12. welcome to the new Twitter
  13. defilement and expulsion
  14. the beginning of the end of the republic of podcasts
  15. Nietzsche and Montaigne
  16. the deviant’s tale
  17. Roberts’s Churchill
  18. insincere controversialists

January 2019

  1. Plutarch and the end of the oracles
  2. Europe
  3. all the productivity guidance I got
  4. “Gen Z” and social media
  5. “the instantaneous awareness of so much folly”
  6. social media, blogs, newsletters
  7. Christie and the mystery
  8. can’t stop, won’t stop
  9. these people now run the world
  10. The Stone Table
  11. it’s worse than you thought
  12. most popular people EVAR
  13. when they find a leader
  14. humans, humanity, humanism
  15. the emperor and the boy scout
  16. and now to sum up
  17. the circulation of Roma
  18. Farewell, John Burningham
  19. request for permissions
  20. scruples
  21. Serial, Season 3
  22. he’s always the boss

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December 2018

  1. aversion, general repulsion
  2. when a writer is wrong
  3. Science and the Good
  4. a Christmas letter from David Jones
  5. well, back to work
  6. advice for Der Spiegel
  7. the Book of Job
  8. a letter from David Jones
  9. Arthurian Legend
  10. knowwedge is what bwings us togeddah today
  11. it’s all very simple
  12. newsletter news
  13. Knuth, Lutheran
  14. the late history of modernism
  15. Speech-craft
  16. The Four Last Things: Hell (a sermon by the Rev. Jessica Martin)
  17. TinyLetter woes
  18. Derrida’s Margins
  19. excerpt from my Sent folder: Twitter
  20. Christians, Pagans, Jews
  21. argumentum ad Hitlerum
  22. neopagans
  23. excerpt from my Sent Folder: to someone who wants to be a writer
  24. praise and worship
  25. Sincerely, Edward Abbey
  26. counsel for preachers (and other Christians)
  27. why you need to take a break from social media
  28. abandoned mansions
  29. Mr Wellmon’s university
  30. one person here understands what Easter is all about
  31. Tending the Digital Commons
  32. Warhol
  33. maybe it’s time to give up
  34. the BAD problem
  35. Alchi
  36. two comments on a review
  37. how Steve Reich discovered his own Judaism
  38. excerpt from my Sent folder: Gollum
  39. asyntactic

November 2018

  1. a handout
  2. enough with the “Cultural Marxism” already
  3. the imperative of silence
  4. the impeded stream
  5. tallgrass prairie
  6. the position of power redux
  7. Bird
  8. Spanish Is the Loving Tongue
  9. my Zettelkasten
  10. maintaining lines of connection
  11. totalitarian presentism
  12. race and ethnicity in the Potterverse
  13. the call to maintenance
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  15. what I hear in church
  16. Tim Larsen on John Stuart Mill
  17. A sermon by the Rev. Jessica Martin, for Remembrance Day
  18. Amazon’s exploitative lust
  19. the imminent collapse of an empire
  20. how I drew my mental map of politics
  21. Psalm
  22. Kingdom
  23. the contingency of collaborative art
  24. academic labor as social media
  25. what’s the point?

October 2018

  1. The Plantin Polyglot Bible
  2. it’s not gonna change
  3. Warren Ellis is extremely correct
  4. how could we be convinced?
  5. Waco Creek
  6. Durham
  7. web design is getting worse and worse
  8. Etno Hut
  9. Issa Megaron
  10. Breaking Bread with the Dead
  11. Writing well ≠ dumbing down
  12. Angel
  13. “drive out the wicked person”
  14. back to the Mac
  15. American Airlines rejects my reality and substitutes its own
  16. WE REACH FOR A BOOK
  17. ancient feelings
  18. Hastings House Book of Hours
  19. extremely spoilery thoughts about Better Call Saul
  20. a parable for our moment
  21. two quotations on democracy and the judiciary
  22. I have so many questions
  23. the lustful sex
  24. 35997 2

September 2018

  1. credibility
  2. “in fact the mind was poorly understood”
  3. “a large superfluous establishment of words”
  4. the methods of the Official Straighteners
  5. is it okay to share praise?
  6. Christian language policing
  7. remembering Doc
  8. on wrath and the feast day of St. Jonathan Swift
  9. a clash of cultures in London
  10. how to evaluate a strong but disputable claim
  11. the instrumentalist chain
  12. on conversation
  13. Yahweh’s unearthly patience
  14. on firing Ian Buruma
  15. on Sloan and Sherlock
  16. dare to make a Daniel
  17. “earthquakes and hurricains of the moral World”
  18. the tools to survive
  19. words and deeds
  20. that’s what I want
  21. the report of the Reform Commission
  22. homes by mail
  23. Quirky
  24. “money is a medium of exchange”
  25. hostages
  26. the face-blind portrait artist
  27. the poet’s house
  28. the cult of the virtuoso theologian
  29. not our fault
  30. “religious myths recycled as ersatz social science”
  31. My David Bentley Hart Problem

August 2018

  1. René Girard, please call your office
  2. the strange world of graduate study
  3. a clear choice
  4. how change happens
  5. populist leaders and the defiance of norms
  6. big news, no action
  7. after Catholic fusionism, what?
  8. from Welles to Saul
  9. once more on generational thinking
  10. I have one question
  11. episcopal feelings
  12. the “gradual decay” of Twitter
  13. going big, going small
  14. another look at Daniel, Wellmon, and the future of the university
  15. on necks that need millstones around them
  16. more to come
  17. 35820 2
  18. excerpt from my Sent folder: on exhausted languages
  19. on sharpness and gentleness
  20. saving America from exploding Cadbury bars
  21. not for fun
  22. excerpt from my Sent folder: authority
  23. The Profumo Option
  24. excerpt from my Sent folder: LP & MTD
  25. addendum
  26. nostalgia for proceduralism
  27. an apology
  28. the Clientele, the Public, the Person
  29. getting real about Facebook
  30. the end of hypocrisy

July 2018

  1. the value of emotional resilience
  2. insensibly
  3. the threefold order of ministry
  4. Sustainability and Solidarity
  5. political mistrust in the long term
  6. common prayer
  7. saving journalism:
  8. pronoun trouble
  9. Chuck Berry, 1958
  10. The Second Vatican Council
  11. do not make room for the devil
  12. Fractured Europe
  13. Pocket-Run Pool
  14. our airport future
  15. For the Love of Mars
  16. the church in Imminent America
  17. the point of the sword
  18. Cpu
  19. the moral ideal
  20. truth and lies
  21. unforeseen consequences
  22. converging on rational standards: not always bad!
  23. suffering and not triumph
  24. The Event
  25. Trollope and Brexit
  26. Boxes
  27. the blog garden
  28. new uses for old blogs
  29. we work in the dark
  30. control and surrender, architecture and gardening
  31. Also
  32. victory paper
  33. Letterbugs
  34. thanks and a plea
  35. Episcopalian exclusionism
  36. ages of revolution
  37. soccer and the impediments to success
  38. and he cried when he realized that there were no more stars to exploit
  39. Milton’s God (and Google’s)
  40. The Rings of Saturn
  41. the Ministry of Amnesia
  42. re-reading Trollope
  43. Principalities, Powers, and BLM
  44. signed with that cross
  45. where citizens were, there shall users be
  46. The Atomic Theory of Human Life
  47. Alan Jacobs is a writer who

June 2018

  1. a position in life
  2. the social utility of religious freedom
  3. intra-Anglican ecumenism
  4. but how far Underground?
  5. the Aspen Tech Solutionism Festival
  6. memory and invention
  7. why hospitality matters: ancient poetry edition
  8. quality of life
  9. viewpoint diversity and religion
  10. American Legothic
  11. when critique dissolves
  12. the world of the deal
  13. tragic humanism
  14. Richard Powers and the third kind of story
  15. more on temporal bandwidth
  16. on the sky island
  17. the whole of the law
  18. cashin’ in the bonds
  19. VR for bear attacks
  20. credit and debt
  21. the mission
  22. proportion
  23. Tolkien and the possibility of healing
  24. how Rebecca West set fire to everything
  25. Facebook wants to matter
  26. Zona
  27. “What are they going to break this time?”
  28. knowing and acting
  29. meritocracy, schmeritocracy
  30. Corey’s grandma’s biscuits
  31. Di•a•graph•i•a, by Sarah Hulsey
  32. Karl Barth to his critics
  33. members of the family
  34. I’m always for the dogs
  35. campaign slogans
  36. good-bye Instagram
  37. seeds of renewal

May 2018

  1. Delete
  2. unexpected moderation
  3. where have the readers gone?
  4. Helliconia
  5. The Alteration
  6. anti-biblical evangelicals
  7. how I strive for this consistency of outlook
  8. Kuhn’s world
  9. Aristotle the colonizer
  10. the story of Francis
  11. the higher selfishness and the long defeat
  12. Milo All Day
  13. counternarratives
  14. Reclaiming Jesus
  15. POTUS, tweetblocker
  16. a Communist and a Tory
  17. the right not to be addressed
  18. contemplation
  19. listening in museums
  20. polyglot politics
  21. Regents park
  22. children v. books
  23. privileges and rough rides
  24. all us exiles
  25. 1041uuu
  26. a brief comment on stories
  27. liberalism and democracy
  28. just for the record
  29. time machine
  30. two quotations
  31. deracination by decree
  32. ride-hailing and restaurants
  33. no quiet mornings
  34. addressing biases
  35. studies prove
  36. everyday people
  37. How the Beijing elite sees the world

April 2018

  1. excerpt from my Sent folder: my goal in life
  2. “Poetry makes nothing happen”
  3. “I like this God”
  4. Christianity and Evangelicalism
  5. excerpt from my Sent folder: the Mortara case
  6. reasons for decline
  7. Steve diBenedetto
  8. you have no idea how frustrating it is …
  9. apologies and clarifications (re: First Things)
  10. the sad compatibilist
  11. The Huntsman
  12. Christians and the academic humanities
  13. the just and redemptive image of God
  14. it me
  15. phrenological examination
  16. more on “rhetorical Leninism”
  17. eye massager
  18. Resynth
  19. National Gallery
  20. Craeft
  21. Lenin

March 2018

  1. academic patricians and plebes
  2. Craigie Aitchison, Crucifixion 9
  3. a Holy Week thought on rhetorical Leninism
  4. what philosophy is for
  5. harmonic convergence
  6. children’s crusades
  7. speaking truth to the professoriate
  8. Hope
  9. Prescription: Poem
  10. The History of Life Through Time
  11. Levi van Veluw: Veneration
  12. exegetical puzzlement
  13. Madonna della Misericordia
  14. radio voices, ranked
  15. Brain
  16. the Berlin sketchbooks of Keir Edmonds
  17. Annihilation
  18. The World Is a Ghetto
  19. engagement 24/7
  20. farewell to Twitter?
  21. The Waco Empire
  22. dignity
  23. I’M AN ARTIST YOUR RULES DON’T APPLY
  24. and I thought John Wilson had many books
  25. Oxford and Cambridge
  26. bad trailers
  27. Venice in snow
  28. Portobello Road Market (1960s)
  29. The Year of Our Lord 1943
  30. Photostat

February 2018

  1. this one’s for Austin Kleon
  2. biblioteca
  3. well, back to work
  4. Correggio’s deception
  5. House
  6. this is the future liberals want
  7. some clarifications
  8. text three ways
  9. On Erik Stevens
  10. three things
  11. religion and public life revisited
  12. making life simpler
  13. between vanity and avarice
  14. the gifts of the Owner of the World
  15. Will Eisner: The Spirit
  16. Constable: Trees on Hampstead Heath
  17. The Black Prince of Burgess and Roberts
  18. Huxtable on Wright
  19. Choice
  20. Frank Lloyd Wright, draftsman
  21. hide your work
  22. the pilgrimage towards Home
  23. annotated Wakes
  24. the ed-tech snake-oil salesmen
  25. “That’s the reality”

January 2018

  1. Embrace the Pain: Living with the Repugnant Cultural Other
  2. the invariant ed-tech sequence
  3. The Bible you carry
  4. reading, annotating, quizzing, teaching
  5. religion as politics, part 2
  6. religion as politics, part 1
  7. reading Charles Taylor
  8. Most influential public intellectuals?
  9. “It just became so obvious”
  10. an earnest prayer
  11. notify me — NOT
  12. the horror of homeschooling
  13. David Bentley Hart’s grocery list
  14. the future of Christian educational institutions
  15. Trouble No More
  16. The Crown
  17. Broken Earth
  18. why Zadie Smith writes
  19. Adam Zagajewski, “The Self”
  20. The Paige Compositor
  21. Monument Valley II
  22. Thor: Ragnarok
  23. gold dust and hero props
  24. “The Lord is with you”
  25. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: 8

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December 2017

  1. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: 7
  2. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: 6
  3. David Jones, in festo nativitatis
  4. excerpt from my Sent folder: myth
  5. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: 5
  6. David Jones, dum medium silentium
  7. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: 4
  8. David Jones, Nativity with Shepherds
  9. David Jones, Nativity
  10. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: 3
  11. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: 2
  12. A Child is Born
  13. Nativity in Ivory
  14. Sir Gawain Is Rising
  15. Craigie Aitchison, “Nativity and Angels”
  16. Les Murray, “Animal Nativity”
  17. Pirate and Traveler
  18. over the bluff and not-so-far away
  19. Eight Donkeys
  20. Gate
  21. Crowley, Pynchon, and the hippies
  22. a medieval brooch
  23. Vegetation of the Old and New Worlds
  24. Mars
  25. “folks”
  26. Faustus’s good angel
  27. more marvelous puppetry
  28. design wit
  29. By day, a mild-mannered civil engineer …
  30. Moomins in winter
  31. the politics of long joy
  32. the habitual passenger
  33. keep the body receptive
  34. I’m listening
  35. autumn textures (central Texas edition)
  36. Teresa Bejan on free speech
  37. unmanly emotion

November 2017

  1. Design for Death
  2. my response to Douthat’s response to my answer to Douthat’s question
  3. Joe Posnanski wises up
  4. leaving the Oasis
  5. Babette the Artist
  6. on evidence and the life of the mind: a follow-up
  7. Ray’s Yellow Plane
  8. where young evangelicals are headed
  9. Auden adapted
  10. Hazlitt hating
  11. the enlightenment of books
  12. Verticals
  13. the poison of consequentialism
  14. the casting game
  15. silver lining!
  16. free speech for me …
  17. a law that applies always and everywhere

October 2017

  1. friendly critic or critical friend?
  2. Catholicism and Protestantism
  3. Vladimir Nabokov on his mother’s religion
  4. excerpt from my Sent folder: on Rod Dreher and the BenOp
  5. reconsidering “evangelical”
  6. accountable
  7. the “decline of religion”
  8. A plea for The Replicant Edit
  9. a thesis about politics
  10. waveforms
  11. making God

September 2017

  1. seasons
  2. politics
  3. Oakeshott on education and culture
  4. guides to the current moment
  5. the rad-trads and ecumenical hope
  6. Bruce Chatwin at Sotheby’s
  7. Le Guin’s golden age
  8. you say Brexit, I say Euroapoculamus
  9. Dear Jenny
  10. Twitter: not actually a company
  11. “we”
  12. Jasper Johns
  13. Paul Nash
  14. two quotations on technological power
  15. forgiveness
  16. Dr. Dinosaur
  17. litmus tests and revulsion
  18. Richard Thompson: creativity from resistance
  19. you and I, dear reader
  20. The Democrats’ religious tests for public office
  21. Kurt Jackson paints the Cot
  22. Altamira
  23. movement
  24. nothing to see here
  25. how to read biblical scholarship when you’re not a biblical scholar

August 2017

  1. at the edge of your range
  2. Raphael’s apostles
  3. Another Week Ends (in Charlottesville)
  4. my writing advice
  5. Agenda
  6. Mermaid Avenue etc.
  7. guidance for my students (& others)
  8. animated Pelicans
  9. writing with the prospect of being hanged
  10. the NYT’s rhetoric of authority
  11. appropriate musical technology
  12. the freelancers’ merry-go-round
  13. the post-Christian culture wars
  14. ways and means of debate
  15. “this is what you no longer understand”
  16. the mystery of Google’s position
  17. orthodoxy, heresy, and definitions
  18. addendum
  19. “Why is this even a question?”
  20. on sexuality and the grammar of orthodoxy
  21. life among the crackheads
  22. a brief quote and a brief thought
  23. Hommage à Bernanos
  24. Sainte Anne instruisant Marie
  25. the supper at Emmaus
  26. “first epistemological impressions”
  27. Perugino

July 2017

  1. London’s “nightmare scenario“
  2. Karma Police, arrest … well, pretty much everybody
  3. bad academic writing? Inconceivable!
  4. how being rich wrecks your soul
  5. murdered by the sky
  6. the Lego offices in London
  7. impairment
  8. “an expression of what we are”
  9. The Shadow knows
  10. the Old South and the New Left
  11. FastMail update
  12. a homily to remember by Jessica Martin
  13. the wisdom of Xún Zǐ
  14. London Bridge
  15. Dick Whittington’s Cat
  16. “I have Calculated and the time is nigh”
  17. Gog and Magog, Guildhall, London
  18. Faith
  19. conservatives and health care
  20. coda to my previous post
  21. writing by the always-wrong
  22. Goodbye FastMail
  23. the healing to come
  24. two minutes
  25. free speech ≠ chronic stress
  26. Quentin Blake’s birds
  27. 34425 2
  28. sacraments
  29. Claremont-McKenna statement
  30. Handy-Dandy Benedict Option Flowchart
  31. civility rethought
  32. late-career Papacy: two models
  33. Sinaia Monastery
  34. a scholar “under attack”
  35. Steven Pinker on Harvard’s proposed club ban
  36. the Great Red Spot
  37. blaming the media
  38. universities under threat?
  39. sandwiches
  40. writ in water
  41. no feelings may be hurt
  42. the shooting gallery
  43. writerly priorities
  44. on not being excluded from a stupid narrative
  45. Chief Justice John Roberts to the graduates of ninth grade
  46. the weakness of religion
  47. Lake Waco Wetlands
  48. against epistocracy
  49. an image

June 2017

  1. why copy editors matter
  2. 34133 2
  3. The Burial of the Dead
  4. revolutionary products
  5. enough already
  6. the Gospel as narrative attractor
  7. Hogwarts School of Art and Music: A Refutation of Ross Douthat
  8. definition as poetry
  9. Anglicans and the echo of history
  10. transcendent experience
  11. books and bookness
  12. China’s “fairy bridge”
  13. Vengeance
  14. how not to headline a story on religious freedom
  15. Firestacks
  16. Plain Words
  17. PROUNEN
  18. roots and crowns
  19. Jonathan Swift clarifies his purpose
  20. Fuschia and Steerpike
  21. a tribute
  22. inward isolation
  23. walking apart, walking together
  24. two quotations on the shape of lives
  25. a useful bit of perspective for the fururists
  26. Malcolm is ten years old today
  27. Las Conchas Trail
  28. Palo Duro Canyon
  29. Pelphase, Interphase, Gusphase
  30. Augustine and Pelagius
  31. the public interrogation of Tim Farron
  32. Trump and Constitutional Law
  33. The Gospel of Taylorism in Truro
  34. The long slow work of combatting ignorance
  35. thought, speech, writing

May 2017

  1. from the Galloway Hoard
  2. Sports commentary follies, 1/3749
  3. from the Staffordshire Hoard
  4. Hypocrisy?
  5. Ravilious
  6. Ware on Steinberg
  7. building walls
  8. Hud
  9. “the social obligation to be happy”
  10. goonery
  11. the wrong side
  12. “the spoils of death’s conquered empire”
  13. Gary Snyder on poetry
  14. the smell of strawmen burning
  15. populism and conservatism
  16. “a benevolent green nationalism”
  17. now that’s a true writer
  18. comprehension
  19. the best emoluments clause
  20. social dissolution
  21. Taboos
  22. 15 hours
  23. Lucretius annotated
  24. on dialogue and normalization
  25. remix? culture?
  26. all hat, no cattle
  27. life in Texas
  28. The BCP and me

April 2017

  1. Michael and Jemele
  2. hurt the people first
  3. the great distillery tour!
  4. ANNOUNCEMENT: The Charles Murray Award for Inciting the Hatred of People Who Have Never Read a Word You’ve Written and Never Will
  5. the absolutizing of fright
  6. ANGELS ANGELS ANGELS ANGELS ANGELS
  7. Jimmy Wales and journalism
  8. Church of the Loaded Arms
  9. Baylor’s nonexistent cliff
  10. Travel
  11. conservation
  12. Chicks
  13. Port Glasgow
  14. Cookham
  15. choices

March 2017

  1. Lenten silence

February 2017

  1. the Map of Peace
  2. Barth: great hope and little hopes
  3. “the death of gods is a chain reaction”
  4. advice to teachers
  5. excerpt from my Sent folder: kids these days
  6. hi
  7. one more note on motivated reasoning
  8. on spears, throats, and motivated reasoning
  9. hate + stupidity
  10. unfair, unbalanced, and afraid
  11. Eno’s rough drafts
  12. good to go
  13. on narcissism
  14. Dust
  15. two descriptions of the university
  16. resourceful Christianity
  17. Tom Waits 15 years ago, me today
  18. current status
  19. Mr. Penumbra in Japan
  20. good times in Waco
  21. What We’re Fighting For
  22. dealing with lies
  23. productive smudging
  24. New Atheist axioms
  25. the experience of free will
  26. theatrical memories
  27. The Christians of Nigeria
  28. judging judges

January 2017

  1. Henri Nouwen’s Weakness Was His Strength
  2. a necessary coinage
  3. Jeremy Begbie on Roger Lundin
  4. Holocaust
  5. Krazy Kat
  6. Pope Francis and Donald Trump: the same man?
  7. “Where would we go?”
  8. you know who you are
  9. a lesson from France
  10. idolatry
  11. Doomsdumb
  12. Donald Trump wants to build a wall here
  13. English Weather
  14. a dialogue on punching
  15. the Pevensies and puberty
  16. The London Necropolis
  17. want to know what “begging the question” means?
  18. The Evenings
  19. George Mackley
  20. everybody got some
  21. youth and age
  22. interviewing Eno
  23. pity the poor referee
  24. gonna be a fabulous four years
  25. Reading Calvin
  26. a helpful reminder of the way we were
  27. sage quotation for the new political era
  28. no pleasant harmony
  29. fighting
  30. A Lover’s Question
  31. performative anxiety
  32. fake news, 1902 edition
  33. soccer Saturday
  34. mea maxima culpa
  35. autópsia
  36. translation (2)
  37. translation
  38. The Tree
  39. a thought on Endo’s Silence
  40. Horizontorium
  41. the circle
  42. how to find
  43. catalog card
  44. rosie roses
  45. John Fuller
  46. jon klassen
  47. Valhalla
  48. Turf
  49. the limits of pluralism
  50. my Premier League mid-season awards
  51. reading Perlstein

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