The Curious Engineer

The Homebound Symphony

2020–2022

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December 2022

  1. 44033 2
  2. 44037 2
  3. removals: a few year-endish thoughts
  4. at the movies
  5. 44026 2
  6. casting about
  7. illusions and their removal
  8. 43962 2
  9. reading Pynchon
  10. 44003 2
  11. movie cards
  12. markets and economies
  13. 43975 2
  14. the friendliness of objects
  15. 43951 2
  16. 43967 2
  17. 43944 2
  18. what a loss
  19. 43964 2
  20. beyond persuasion
  21. two kinds of work
  22. the age of taipa
  23. 43934 2
  24. 43924 2
  25. defining immortality down
  26. 43922 2
  27. 43919 2
  28. 43910 2
  29. 43895 2
  30. Pele
  31. attention and reading
  32. defilement redux
  33. my skillz
  34. why liberals should read smart conservatives
  35. leopards
  36. 43882 2
  37. 43876 2
  38. 43869 2
  39. 43857 2
  40. 43855 2
  41. 43850 2
  42. 43847 2
  43. common ground and its enemies
  44. 43819 2
  45. imagined railways
  46. the blog as a seasoned technology
  47. oh, okay, one more post
  48. 43807 2
  49. a year of new avenues
  50. 43801 2
  51. 43799 2
  52. 43792 2
  53. 43789 2
  54. 43786 2
  55. and then?
  56. 43781 2
  57. two quotations on slow reading
  58. I like my job
  59. no comment
  60. two quotations on reading books
  61. words: bashed
  62. ripeness

November 2022

  1. 43727 2
  2. political football
  3. comparative study of real and fictional corbies
  4. 43752 2
  5. 43731 2
  6. Real Presence in Sex and Sacrament
  7. medical discourse
  8. lies, yours and mine
  9. hiding your hand
  10. 43721 2
  11. 43704 2
  12. 43702 2
  13. ark head
  14. 43691 2
  15. 43687 2
  16. 43712 2
  17. the media ecology of college writing
  18. 43611 2
  19. 43673 2
  20. a change of attention
  21. Tanzmasken
  22. 43689 2
  23. 43682 2
  24. low anthropology
  25. 43680 2
  26. 43677 2
  27. subsidiarity
  28. 43671 2
  29. 43669 2
  30. 43666 2
  31. Mastodonic thoughts
  32. 43624 2
  33. peaceableness
  34. a right bollocking
  35. capitaltruism
  36. sprawling along the way: a polemic and an exhortation
  37. showing
  38. Corvo
  39. two essays
  40. Ronald Blythe, age 100
  41. a proposal
  42. rethinking work
  43. 43602 2
  44. master to master
  45. 43593 2
  46. 43491 2
  47. negative worlds all the way down
  48. Stats
  49. Pevearsion
  50. Home invasion
  51. End-Times Tales
  52. 43505 2
  53. excerpt from my Sent folder: angels
  54. a parable
  55. being Russian
  56. scale again
  57. audiences
  58. the foundering of the therapeutic
  59. 43537 2
  60. 43534 2
  61. eyeballs
  62. maybe this is the least important election of my lifetime
  63. the tongues of men and angels
  64. summing up 1943
  65. things poets do
  66. 43498 2
  67. 43482 2
  68. Sermon for All Souls by Jessica Martin
  69. refugees from human nature

October 2022

  1. Vulcanology
  2. so let’s chill
  3. this blog’s mission statement
  4. 43451 2
  5. Adam Atheist
  6. announcement
  7. seed funding for the arts
  8. 43427 2
  9. Bresson and the power of habit
  10. 43422 2
  11. 43412 2
  12. de-streaming
  13. forming the public self

September 2022

  1. unpreparation
  2. homelessness
  3. it’s all content
  4. 43392 2
  5. comparisons are odorous
  6. fighting the good fight
  7. the arts our country requires
  8. defeaters
  9. monarchy
  10. 43368 2
  11. name change
  12. two versions of covid skepticism
  13. secret ambivalence
  14. 43352 2
  15. 43348 2
  16. 43339 2
  17. Mark Zuckerberg Welcomes YOU to the Metaverse
  18. an allegory of American political life, especially online
  19. forking paths
  20. 43325 2
  21. the dust that you are
  22. rebellion against stability
  23. 43313 2
  24. file-selves
  25. sequence, 2
  26. my little soccer
  27. 43304 2
  28. 43295 2
  29. Auden, nature, history
  30. redirect
  31. sequence
  32. Shorts
  33. Le faux samouraï
  34. the King
  35. how history doesn’t work
  36. Blimp
  37. 43251 2
  38. 43245 2
  39. introducing
  40. 43243 2
  41. 43241 2
  42. 43237 2
  43. God Save the Queen
  44. 43232 2
  45. 43227 2
  46. creating the Vernacular Republic
  47. the history of literacy
  48. the final frame
  49. 43193 2
  50. 43189 2
  51. time out
  52. the end of The This
  53. 43185 2
  54. The-Sick-Soul-of-Europe Parties
  55. wait, what?
  56. 43161 2

August 2022

  1. 43170 2
  2. 43168 2
  3. 40-year report
  4. open letter
  5. 43154 2
  6. quote unquote
  7. 43147 2
  8. two quotations on memory holes, present and future
  9. ELEMENT ANTYSOCJALISTYCZNY
  10. heads up
  11. Remembering Fred Buechner
  12. speed revisited
  13. 43117 2
  14. the publishing monoculture
  15. 43119 2
  16. taste and judgment
  17. revisiting Saul
  18. Lambeth
  19. Kubrick the idealist
  20. forgetting and propaganda
  21. 43098 2
  22. liberalism vs. centrism, adjacency and action
  23. Change
  24. me to Peter Gould and Vince Gilligan
  25. 43055 2
  26. tolerance
  27. 43028 2
  28. lost causes and places of hope
  29. liberals believe
  30. heads up
  31. 43073 2
  32. 43039 2
  33. 43037 2
  34. another friendly reminder
  35. trolleys
  36. exhaustion, its causes and treatments
  37. a friendly reminder
  38. thoughts, nearing the end
  39. exousia
  40. 43009 2
  41. Le Guin and forgiveness
  42. 43025 2
  43. 43021 2
  44. 43012 2
  45. two quotations on church
  46. enough is enough
  47. 42979 2
  48. my new spiritual discipline …
  49. 42995 2
  50. 42981 2
  51. 42992 2
  52. 42990 2
  53. violence and boredom
  54. representation
  55. 42968 2
  56. decline and fall
  57. 42976 2
  58. incentives
  59. 42961 2
  60. 42965 2
  61. 42948 2

July 2022

  1. 42959 2
  2. smooth things and rough ground
  3. 42889 2
  4. building what looks right
  5. 42945 2
  6. 42941 2
  7. 42939 2
  8. Fish
  9. the file system
  10. 42867 2
  11. 42934 2
  12. 42932 2
  13. 42928 2
  14. 42926 2
  15. no nonsense
  16. 42861 2
  17. two varieties of human frailty
  18. 42911 2
  19. 42906 2
  20. normie wisdom 7: politics
  21. 42902 2
  22. 42899 2
  23. 42897 2
  24. capability and collaboration
  25. 42884 2
  26. 42880 2
  27. the invitation to critique
  28. 42863 2
  29. the missing middle
  30. critique and repair in the canyon
  31. Convo
  32. 42835 2
  33. L’aube de l’homme
  34. the ultimate in entitlement
  35. 42815 2
  36. three versions of artificial intelligence
  37. 42832 2
  38. 42830 2
  39. 42826 2
  40. what’s done
  41. 42813 2
  42. 42810 2
  43. 42805 2
  44. improving
  45. indestructible
  46. 42795 2
  47. 42775 2
  48. Ellul and anarchism
  49. the two enemies
  50. 42780 2
  51. self-limitation
  52. dehumanizing fun
  53. 42772 2
  54. 42716 2
  55. 42766 2
  56. normie wisdom 6: fear
  57. 42762 2
  58. 42758 2
  59. 42754 2
  60. 42736 2
  61. 42746 2
  62. 42740 2
  63. Caro’s LBJ
  64. 42734 2
  65. 42732 2
  66. 42714 2
  67. 42718 2
  68. 42712 2
  69. the sheepdog’s view
  70. 42710 2
  71. annoyance
  72. 42702 2

June 2022

  1. 42705 2
  2. habits of the American mind
  3. The Best and the Brightest
  4. 42645 2
  5. 42619 2
  6. two quotations on culture wars
  7. 42690 2
  8. 42627 2
  9. 42634 2
  10. weighing in, God help me
  11. a friendly reminder
  12. 42643 2
  13. transcription
  14. getting what you ask for
  15. 42597 2
  16. 42624 2
  17. 42622 2
  18. 42617 2
  19. Machenesque and Menckenesque
  20. 42613 2
  21. self-understanding and resistance
  22. 42592 2
  23. 42589 2
  24. bodies and stones
  25. 42570 2
  26. 42556 2
  27. less Tono, more Bungay
  28. 42541 2
  29. excerpt from my Sent folder: nodes
  30. 42539 2
  31. 42536 2
  32. Tono-Bungay
  33. 42523 2
  34. 42529 2
  35. 42464 2
  36. 42521 2
  37. 42519 2
  38. 42517 2
  39. artisans on video
  40. sauce, goose, gander
  41. normie wisdom 5: idiocy
  42. book review ethics
  43. 42508 2
  44. 42453 2
  45. three axioms
  46. 42450 2
  47. 42495 2
  48. 42493 2
  49. a proper goal
  50. my essential productivity app
  51. 42460 2
  52. 42482 2
  53. “She’s Funny That Way”
  54. 42475 2
  55. 42467 2
  56. normie wisdom 4: quirky vs. basic
  57. 42425 2
  58. 42456 2
  59. 42446 2
  60. 42440 2
  61. normie wisdom 3: two quotations on common responses
  62. too good not to be true?
  63. 42432 2
  64. 42422 2
  65. excerpt from my Sent folder: “September 1, 1939”
  66. 42429 2
  67. contractual and unconditional love
  68. 42367 2
  69. 42418 2
  70. not for me
  71. 42393 2
  72. 42352 2

May 2022

  1. 42396 2
  2. 42410 2
  3. normie wisdom 2: philistines
  4. 42345 2
  5. two quotations on what has been lost
  6. 42391 2
  7. 42365 2
  8. keeping things on my chest
  9. brief hiatus
  10. 42360 2
  11. 42358 2
  12. normie wisdom: 1
  13. 42354 2
  14. 42350 2
  15. when problems aren’t trolley problems
  16. my business
  17. a story
  18. 42295 2
  19. Time
  20. points that don’t need to be belabored
  21. 42321 2
  22. 42319 2
  23. 42316 2
  24. 42289 2
  25. 42309 2
  26. 42312 2
  27. 42284 2
  28. pandemic and biopower
  29. 42302 2
  30. 42293 2
  31. 42286 2
  32. Welp
  33. this is your brain on shuffle
  34. 42275 2
  35. reification and metaphysical capitalism
  36. 42270 2
  37. 42268 2
  38. 42265 2
  39. on resembling the Angel of History
  40. 42256 2
  41. Nerves
  42. mapping the books
  43. Bloggy
  44. ascending
  45. 42216 2
  46. some thoughts on Tim Keller
  47. Zine
  48. 42225 2
  49. the speed of God
  50. mid-century modernity
  51. 42218 2
  52. envelope please
  53. 42211 2
  54. 42207 2
  55. 42203 2
  56. 42191 2
  57. 42200 2
  58. the old women of Nishapur
  59. 42186 2
  60. making a difference
  61. 42171 2
  62. the glazing of eyes
  63. Andy Crouch on invitation and repair
  64. 42173 2
  65. a memory
  66. Dna

April 2022

  1. uniqueness
  2. 42142 2
  3. 42138 2
  4. Skyscraper
  5. a bit of advice
  6. “You can’t see it so I help you”
  7. department of corrections
  8. 42112 2
  9. 42108 2
  10. 42106 2
  11. 42103 2
  12. 42099 2
  13. 42096 2
  14. 42092 2
  15. this and that
  16. a tiny rant
  17. 42080 2
  18. injured
  19. institutions
  20. entanglements
  21. Hero
  22. 42068 2
  23. 42033 2
  24. 42052 2
  25. reading lists
  26. 42061 2
  27. The Love Feast
  28. 42047 2
  29. 42045 2
  30. Welles and the newspapers
  31. compelling needs
  32. 42042 2
  33. two quotations on life beyond self-actualization
  34. 42035 2
  35. cross and resurrection
  36. the great and awful doctrine
  37. Ross’s prediction and mine
  38. waiting for persuasion
  39. discounting the past
  40. self-Haysing
  41. 42016 2
  42. 42006 2
  43. Demons
  44. 41995 2
  45. 41988 2
  46. scatterings
  47. Callow on Welles
  48. 41975 2
  49. 41973 2
  50. 41971 2
  51. neighbors and altruism
  52. 41965 2
  53. rules, consent, virtues
  54. universal neighborliness
  55. 41955 2
  56. Denethor the impious
  57. Bunker Hill
  58. 41945 2
  59. 41943 2
  60. 41941 2

March 2022

  1. a threefold labor
  2. 41935 2
  3. 41933 2
  4. 41927 2
  5. 41924 2
  6. 41922 2
  7. 41915 2
  8. 41912 2
  9. 41910 2
  10. 41908 2
  11. critique and repair
  12. Sergei and Aimee
  13. two quotations on age
  14. 41895 2
  15. the power of priors
  16. scissors in the head
  17. cancel it
  18. The Crimson Pirate
  19. 41886 2
  20. 41873 2
  21. complete control
  22. Ambersons
  23. lagniappe
  24. 41852 2
  25. well ok then
  26. 41845 2
  27. 41843 2
  28. beyond grumpiness
  29. 41839 2
  30. Mars Hill Audio
  31. 41826 2
  32. 41833 2
  33. unresonant
  34. 41828 2
  35. 41798 2
  36. aspiring to realism
  37. 41823 2
  38. 41815 2
  39. civil heart, disinterested charity
  40. 41808 2
  41. 41806 2
  42. Sounds
  43. 41773 2
  44. Uw milwaukee special collections image
  45. 41785 2
  46. 41783 2
  47. consecration to culture
  48. 41775 2
  49. 41769 2
  50. a useful distinction
  51. 41749 2
  52. 41744 2
  53. 41758 2
  54. original thinking and academic codes
  55. no power on earth
  56. revisiting architectural blogging
  57. current status
  58. 41739 2
  59. education, more or less
  60. self-knowledge, self-help
  61. nothing’s perfect
  62. news-resilient
  63. 41726 2
  64. 41724 2
  65. dystopia now
  66. 41703 2
  67. 41718 2
  68. doing your own research
  69. Injured Parties
  70. 41705 2

February 2022

  1. 41696 2
  2. songs you’re entitled to sing
  3. 41690 2
  4. 41688 2
  5. 41663 2
  6. hard things with friends
  7. R.I.P. Paul Farmer
  8. 41667 2
  9. unified
  10. 41654 2
  11. 41652 2
  12. 41645 2
  13. cunning
  14. 41641 2
  15. 41639 2
  16. this vs. The This
  17. the low bar
  18. 41626 2
  19. 41632 2
  20. useful thinkers in three kinds
  21. Soma
  22. 41601 2
  23. seeds and means of renewal
  24. 41590 2
  25. 41614 2
  26. 41581 2
  27. 41575 2
  28. 41608 2
  29. 41606 2
  30. 41599 2
  31. public and private
  32. 41597 2
  33. attentional norms
  34. the view from Poppy Hill
  35. 41578 2
  36. the graveyard of ideas
  37. 41556 2
  38. 41571 2
  39. tenants
  40. Christianity in sum
  41. makers and making
  42. 41561 2
  43. two quotations: ears to hear
  44. 41558 2
  45. 41552 2
  46. inside/outside
  47. myths and counter-myths
  48. orienting principles

January 2022

  1. 41526 2
  2. 41524 2
  3. excerpt from my Sent folder: dominant
  4. eating people is wrong
  5. 41511 2
  6. 41508 2
  7. 41505 2
  8. scouring
  9. Trying 2
  10. 41497 2
  11. your questions answered
  12. free and forever
  13. on Wells
  14. 41487 2
  15. undefended, unprotected
  16. the power of ideology
  17. excerpt from my Sent folder: Morgenbesser
  18. 41387 2
  19. intractable
  20. 41382 2
  21. 41342 2
  22. 41375 2
  23. CD
  24. Runs
  25. 41367 2
  26. Albeit
  27. covid in four states
  28. defenseless
  29. drawing a narcissus
  30. 41321 2
  31. the whys and wherefores of humanistic study
  32. The homebound symphony
  33. Can’t stop? Won’t stop.
  34. summing up and moving forward
  35. 41313 2
  36. all I want to know is …
  37. revisiting Richter
  38. moral infections
  39. 41297 2
  40. The Year of Repair
  41. circumlocution
  42. practices
  43. 41282 2
  44. two quotations on web3
  45. 41279 2
  46. formation and martyrdom
  47. Sidney was right
  48. 41273 2
  49. 41271 2
  50. 41269 2
  51. 41262 2
  52. 361 years ago today
  53. equipment
  54. Phatic Pharting
  55. 41235 2
  56. Why
  57. the cross-pressured self
  58. an artifact of scale
  59. Special Relationships
  60. Buy Me a Dragon
  61. 41205 2

2021 415

December 2021

  1. readers reading, disagreeing
  2. Weil and justice
  3. the mirror
  4. two kinds of writer
  5. 41179 2
  6. Super-Fancies
  7. intimacy
  8. here I am again
  9. reviews and essays, hidden
  10. heads up
  11. Hogarth

November 2021

  1. language, language
  2. tribulation
  3. 41115 2
  4. imagination
  5. 41109 2
  6. 41105 2
  7. 41103 2
  8. 41101 2
  9. two quotations on disagreement
  10. 41097 2
  11. symbolic manipulation
  12. incremental
  13. 41085 2
  14. against the state
  15. 41081 2
  16. 41078 2
  17. corruption
  18. representation
  19. 41071 2
  20. Czech avant-garde
  21. Design
  22. a way forward
  23. unbribed
  24. alliances
  25. 41055 2
  26. 41053 2
  27. 41028 2
  28. 41023 2
  29. Uatx
  30. 41017 2
  31. 41014 2
  32. 41012 2
  33. 41010 2
  34. 41005 2
  35. 41003 2
  36. two quotations on the metaverse

October 2021

  1. Hiatus
  2. motives
  3. 40983 2
  4. engagement
  5. mediocrity and acceptance
  6. bad dispensations
  7. 40967 2
  8. 40965 2
  9. the beginning of politics
  10. 40958 2
  11. 40955 2
  12. a brief note on narrative
  13. Am i a different person when i travelhttps www washingtonpost com lifestyle travel psychology travel vacation identity transformation 2021 10 07 19e2615c 2204 11ec 8200 5e3fd4c49f5e story html
  14. 40947 2
  15. a Black cop’s son
  16. 40936 2
  17. the Noriko Triptych
  18. 40911 2
  19. Paper Electronic Literature
  20. 40904 2
  21. Vertigo
  22. 40886 2
  23. 40884 2
  24. Kareem weighs in
  25. the perils of translation
  26. trainings
  27. 40865 2
  28. 40863 2
  29. governance by image
  30. poem and antipoem
  31. 40842 2
  32. 40840 2
  33. speaking truth to power
  34. Criterion
  35. Christians and the biopolitical
  36. deracination
  37. 40812 2
  38. 40808 2
  39. medicine as religion
  40. compliance
  41. taverns and churches
  42. news as religion

September 2021

  1. indices
  2. 40788 2
  3. excerpt from my Sent folder: strawberries
  4. 40781 2
  5. random Foundational thoughts
  6. 40776 2
  7. waiting
  8. neighbors
  9. thirty years ago today
  10. 40762 2
  11. the Mondragon moment
  12. 40756 2
  13. underwriting democracy
  14. 40751 2
  15. John Shelby Spong
  16. scholars
  17. 40744 2
  18. a church in crisis
  19. 40736 2
  20. Envoy
  21. numbers
  22. 40729 2
  23. 40725 2
  24. The Honky-Tonk Nun of Ethiopia
  25. ebooks bad
  26. R.I.P. Norm
  27. 40713 2
  28. 40710 2
  29. where have you gone, Hamburger University?
  30. 40702 2
  31. 40700 2
  32. beyond the strongman
  33. we all know but won’t say
  34. the coolest people from my home town
  35. the breaking of the inherited vessels
  36. 40672 2
  37. 40669 2
  38. afterwards
  39. Elon’s plan

August 2021

  1. just for the record
  2. on me
  3. Across the Borderline
  4. and so it begins
  5. 40625 2
  6. 40622 2
  7. Day, Prez, Hawk, Jeru
  8. Lady Day and Coleman Hawkins
  9. 40611 2
  10. Hubris
  11. 40605 2
  12. 40603 2
  13. too lazy for long marches
  14. Coming September 7
  15. 40593 2
  16. 40591 2
  17. 40589 2
  18. 40586 2
  19. bookmarking
  20. Letter Makers
  21. Dangerous Work at Low Tide
  22. Duty Boat
  23. a new theory of propaganda
  24. thoughts on Glass
  25. the Stupids
  26. two quotations on innovation and influence
  27. Permanent Crisis
  28. thinking and rationality
  29. 40544 2
  30. departments of knowledge
  31. Tolkien and Auden
  32. Orbanistas
  33. assessment
  34. caricatures
  35. more on geoengineering
  36. The Deep Places
  37. Bible reading II
  38. Roberts on Taylor
  39. pure speculation
  40. by the numbers
  41. gratitude
  42. 40495 2
  43. 40493 2
  44. Milo again
  45. 40485 2
  46. unknown unknowns
  47. 40477 2

July 2021

  1. open letter from a distinguished surgeon
  2. Good
  3. On Not Reading the Bible
  4. the fault
  5. beats me
  6. separate … but equal?
  7. two questions
  8. citizens
  9. The Lamps
  10. the Campanile of Giotto
  11. tablets
  12. Shadow Kingdom
  13. Sant’Andrea al Quirinale
  14. asymmetrical charity
  15. passing
  16. literary journalism
  17. linkages
  18. evasions and approaches
  19. dialogue
  20. two quotations: great words and grand themes
  21. a reminder
  22. thoughts after 90 minutes
  23. 40362 2
  24. 40359 2
  25. orbital obliquity
  26. revisiting
  27. le mot juste
  28. more on sexual difference
  29. difference
  30. Credit
  31. tales of technocracy
  32. excerpt from my Sent folder: the Hitchens unit

June 2021

  1. Dont 2
  2. Dei
  3. the rotting internet
  4. writing a Life
  5. the real Adorno
  6. economies
  7. on re-reading Acts
  8. editing tools
  9. civil disagreement
  10. two quotations: work
  11. Are you still there?
  12. Bible reading in style
  13. Little Platoons
  14. 40257 2
  15. two poems in support of my recent posts
  16. 40250 2
  17. managers and givers
  18. two constitutions
  19. giving breath back to the dead
  20. Attention! (a summary)
  21. Thoughts on the Euros: 1
  22. chirography
  23. Betjeman & Burnham
  24. Gorey as designer
  25. Mbm
  26. Sourdough
  27. 40203 2
  28. 40201 2
  29. a kind of parable
  30. Out of Chaos
  31. Bird Basket
  32. All Saints Chapel
  33. Covehithe Church
  34. not giving up
  35. 40163 2
  36. le mot juste
  37. Light Perpetual
  38. the meaning of Purgatory
  39. Berlins
  40. Collett’s England
  41. 40140 2
  42. re: Foucault

May 2021

  1. habituation
  2. excerpt from my Sent folder: mythos
  3. 40125 2
  4. partners
  5. the death of journalism
  6. 40097 2
  7. abandoned
  8. Hockney’s Rake
  9. 40078 2
  10. 40071 2
  11. 40069 2
  12. 40067 2
  13. linkage
  14. goods and harms
  15. China’s intellectual future
  16. plus ça change
  17. pluralities
  18. next steps
  19. thick and thin
  20. 40028 2
  21. step by step
  22. changing priors, changing life
  23. 40020 2
  24. Underworld
  25. 40015 2
  26. excerpt from my Sent folder: orbit
  27. bits and pieces
  28. 40002 2
  29. 39998 2
  30. 39994 2

April 2021

  1. 39987 2
  2. expectations
  3. three characters in search of forgiveness
  4. 39973 2
  5. exhaustion
  6. how to read stuff posted online
  7. 39962 2
  8. first signs
  9. acoustic renown
  10. follow the links
  11. a bit of friendly advice
  12. Rome fell in a day
  13. updates on this and that
  14. Seventy-three years
  15. transnational capitalism in boots
  16. 39921 2
  17. “the church itself does not believe”
  18. a bit of pedagogy
  19. hoti’s business
  20. the sprawling toolbox
  21. 39903 2
  22. touch not the unclean thing
  23. Mercy
  24. imagine
  25. it’s Palmer Eldritch’s world, we’re just living in it
  26. the method
  27. to sum up
  28. the spoils
  29. what we need
  30. strategy and vocation
  31. 39869 2

March 2021

  1. three lessons
  2. Left Purity Culture
  3. stocking up
  4. rewilding
  5. culture and value
  6. judging capitalism
  7. more on invitation
  8. R.I.P. Larry McMurtry
  9. indiscriminate acceptance
  10. powers and demons
  11. a new old Prayer Book
  12. 39821 2
  13. two quotations on the miraculous
  14. Isolatos
  15. blogging and the blogosphere
  16. vendoring culture
  17. biographies and brands
  18. beyond repair
  19. more on invitation and repair
  20. Invitation and Repair
  21. This story
  22. the new heretics
  23. the wait
  24. premises
  25. indoctrination
  26. syllables
  27. Malcolm
  28. franchise service
  29. for another view, please see…
  30. you want it darker
  31. 39731 2
  32. two quotations on technological impermanence (plus commentary)

February 2021

  1. not through me
  2. 39722 2
  3. up the Amazon
  4. free speech under technocracy
  5. 39716 2
  6. Damnatio memoriae
  7. two quotations on conspiracy belief
  8. the warming center
  9. Conservatism Inc.
  10. trade-offs
  11. 39683 2
  12. Bandcamp should be Substack for musicians
  13. the next wave
  14. two quotations on journalism
  15. cold Texas
  16. mendacity on Eighth Avenue
  17. Kafkaesque
  18. weighed in the balance
  19. two weather forecasts
  20. excerpt from my Sent folder: forgiveness
  21. Paul, our contemporary
  22. grace not abounding
  23. negation and affirmation
  24. presentism and the Present
  25. clarity
  26. qi
  27. your periodic friendly reminder of a very inconvenient truth
  28. Daoism and Cosmotechnics

January 2021

  1. katharsis culture
  2. offside, handball, and VAR
  3. 39593 2
  4. 39591 2
  5. 39587 2
  6. 39584 2
  7. calculations
  8. three quotations on journalism
  9. the three paths
  10. couldn’t have said it better myself
  11. Auden on education in America
  12. la crisis del humanismo cristiano
  13. Light Perpetual
  14. 39545 2
  15. Ashes
  16. Unity
  17. two quotations on prophecy
  18. why not with love?
  19. two quotations on form
  20. peacemaking
  21. 39518 2
  22. a little moral clarity
  23. do I feel fine?
  24. 39503 2
  25. two quotations on recent events
  26. back to class prep
  27. 39486 2
  28. 39483 2
  29. Manorial Technocracy
  30. a time of reckoning
  31. The Year of Hypomone
  32. for the record
  33. essential reading for skeptics (and others)
  34. looking backward
  35. scale, cont’d.
  36. opportunity
  37. 39408 2
  38. 39392 2
  39. the new strain of covid
  40. frivolity
  41. clarity
  42. more education, more motivated reasoning
  43. Planet Earth
  44. against Trumpistan
  45. UMaster

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December 2020

  1. a reflection
  2. samizdat
  3. Guilt
  4. Thin gruel
  5. Crt
  6. unlived
  7. 39269 2
  8. 39266 2
  9. Muting
  10. The Return of the King
  11. sifting the words
  12. testing the spirits
  13. the two parties
  14. Cosmotechnics
  15. clarification
  16. Palaiphobia
  17. under pressure
  18. an intractable problem
  19. re-reading

November 2020

  1. incomprehension
  2. the Qoheleth of Austin
  3. two quotations on American politics
  4. mistrust
  5. Odds
  6. Excerpt from my Sent folder: quarantine and quizzes
  7. back to the urbs
  8. weakness and isolation
  9. I think we’re all bozos on this bus

October 2020

  1. it’s time
  2. rediscovery
  3. the college experience
  4. If Then
  5. hidden features of micro.blog
  6. Simple
  7. the Great Crumping revisited
  8. excerpt from my Sent folder: crumped
  9. civility revisited
  10. individualism
  11. “not living merely for himself”

September 2020

  1. 39009 2
  2. Proudhon to Marx
  3. readings
  4. two thoughts
  5. 38958 2
  6. bundles
  7. 38943 2
  8. Shy
  9. Gaslighting
  10. limiting power
  11. an alternative
  12. advice for journalists
  13. disparities
  14. lessons for activists from Edmund Burke
  15. the failings of biographers
  16. sexual politics

August 2020

  1. brand partnerships
  2. fascist architecture
  3. how he got away with it
  4. critique and myth
  5. why racism is wrong
  6. on being Bombadil
  7. summary, with tags
  8. iPad update
  9. so sue me
  10. wokeness as Counter-Reformation
  11. a message to my students
  12. Texas City
  13. hoisting the flag
  14. Shaken
  15. putting this on the record

July 2020

  1. when you feel you can’t win
  2. Race at Baylor
  3. kneeling
  4. Hey
  5. more on the Dish
  6. proportional representation
  7. plurality and unity
  8. Remembering Jim Packer
  9. return of the Dish
  10. tolerating corruption, or not
  11. The Shield of Achilles
  12. the emotional intelligence of long experience
  13. Mindslaughter and the united front
  14. high time
  15. dog whistles
  16. out-wrathing
  17. Freddie is right
  18. as essential as bread
  19. Mammon
  20. betwixt and between
  21. the circle game

June 2020

  1. Carl Reiner and me
  2. learning from Rod Dreher
  3. no, this isn’t about deconstruction
  4. punishing the innocent
  5. the web as it ought to be
  6. unsolicited advice
  7. Dear Apple
  8. last word on critical theory
  9. Christians and critical theory
  10. more on “critical theory”
  11. Fear
  12. 38509 2
  13. getting back to the open web via micro.blog
  14. more on the mania for unanimity
  15. stochastic resonance in reading
  16. not so much
  17. tiptoe stance
  18. I may be some time
  19. two quotes by Jesse Singal
  20. technocracy is impossible
  21. 38450 2
  22. A Canticle
  23. 38443 2
  24. 38440 2
  25. public health and economic balance

May 2020

  1. in the day of trouble
  2. lessons from the past
  3. my expert opinion
  4. St. Mark’s
  5. Leaves
  6. Loggia of the Doge’s Palace
  7. 38406 2
  8. “Titanic insanity”
  9. Untitled 6
  10. “I hated it with, like, a powerful hate”
  11. on misunderstanding critical theory
  12. fifteen years ago
  13. serious questions for churches
  14. Thread
  15. Wittgenzen
  16. 38353 2
  17. deep literacy?
  18. mail time
  19. what to say about First Things?
  20. QAnon: costs and benefits
  21. how hard
  22. free as in more coffee
  23. another case for the humanities
  24. Ravi Zacharias
  25. 38309 2
  26. Sticky
  27. against “the common good”

April 2020

  1. enlightenment for ninepence
  2. after the storm
  3. Dichotomies
  4. the seductions of prediction
  5. more things happening
  6. breaking habits
  7. things happening in my yard
  8. le mot unjuste
  9. why Blake is terrifying
  10. Saul: Season 5, final comment
  11. thoughts
  12. thinking during Covidtide
  13. Scenes
  14. Saul: Season 5, Comment 3
  15. 38233 2
  16. 38218 2
  17. Arcabas, Le retour du fils
  18. I have some questions
  19. ecclesial bricolage

March 2020

  1. why death is bad: a primer for Christians
  2. the post-truth thought leaders at work
  3. a remarkable convergence
  4. Saul: season 5, comment 2
  5. motte and bailey and coronavirus
  6. choices
  7. comfort food: a recipe
  8. welcome to my classroom
  9. livestreaming church
  10. the definitive guide
  11. Attaboy
  12. extended families
  13. Morning Prayer
  14. rocketing the mind
  15. Folly
  16. incuriosity and indifference
  17. Stonehenge 1947
  18. reading in a time of anxiety
  19. who you gonna believe?
  20. “a sad bit of fair play”
  21. 38089 2
  22. Choose
  23. 38082 2
  24. 38079 2
  25. Saul: season 5, comment 1
  26. A Long Defeat, A Final Victory
  27. 38053 2
  28. Still
  29. the unpundit

February 2020

  1. ayjaytopia
  2. Hurt
  3. the default assumption
  4. Mantel’s Cromwell
  5. productivity
  6. what to do on Saturday night when you have a cold
  7. what’s in my bag
  8. one more post about Twitter
  9. a perfect ratio
  10. loss and grief
  11. 37984 2
  12. oscillations
  13. reading Paul: 2
  14. reading Paul
  15. nature and freedom
  16. 37930 2
  17. understanding Christians (and others) on social media
  18. 37917 2

January 2020

  1. a few items added

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