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D. Linker on Culture War-Abortion

Chris Dierkes January 30, 2009
Damon Linker with a followup on the intra-left argument about whether Obama will end the culture war...
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Authority, Empathy, and Power

Erik Kain January 29, 2009
A while ago I attempted to wade through some of the differences I noticed between Cultural or...
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Stand Up Sociology

Chris Dierkes January 29, 2009
Jennifer Schuessler writing in the NyTimes Review of Books: Pity the poor Organization Man. Once upon a...
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So long, Culture11

Erik Kain January 29, 2009
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“To the Barricades!”

Mark of New Jersey January 29, 2009
This will hopefully be the only call to activism that I will ever issue at this site. ...
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Talking About the Same Thing When the Other Side Won’t

Mark of New Jersey January 29, 2009
Downblog, Kyle highlights and provides approval for a comment to my post this afternoon on the importance...
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goodbye to Culture11

Freddie January 29, 2009
If you Google “Culture11” you’ll find a ton of entries that say “My article at Culture11”. That’s...
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Beyond the Stimulus?

Chris Dierkes January 28, 2009
David Leonhardt writing in the NyTimes: But while Washington has been preoccupied with stimulus and bailouts, another,...
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Painting in broad strikes

Erik Kain January 28, 2009
Helen Rittlemeyer thinks I’m talking trash about her kind of conservatism.  In a previous post, I wrote:...
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Finding Humility for the Sake of Positive Partisanship

Guest Authors January 28, 2009
by Kyle Moore (Note: this post is MOSTLY ripped straight from my comments to one of Scott’s...
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Talking About the Same Thing

Mark of New Jersey January 28, 2009
Professor Joseph Wagner of Colgate University, one of the three professors who most influenced the development of...
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Schools, segregation, and gay rights

Erik Kain January 28, 2009
Freddie asks: Hey, why would someone like me be more invested in building a legal defense of...
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Of Maus and Men

Erik Kain January 28, 2009
Last night, which happened to be International Holocaust Remembrance Day, I attended a lecture by Pulitzer prize...
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pragmatics first

Freddie January 28, 2009
Hey, why would someone like me be more invested in building a legal defense of gay marriage...
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A Public-Private Partnership?

Dave January 27, 2009
To Chris’ comments  about the banks and the knowledge of the debt that they hold, this is generally...
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Sometimes the Quid Is Better than the Quo

Mark of New Jersey January 27, 2009
There is much ado today about the fact that Obama, apparently in response to conservatives’ objections, has...
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atheism and monsters

Freddie January 27, 2009
Reading over the various responses to Ross Douthat’s piece on celestial teapots and the Flying Spaghetti Monster,...
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More on Occupation

Chris Dierkes January 27, 2009
Following up on ED’s post (and the sad 60 Minutes video), here is another video on the...
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Tough Love

Erik Kain January 27, 2009
As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, it is the settlements more than anything else that prevent a...
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Economic Crisis

Chris Dierkes January 26, 2009
This post grows out of some discussion Freddie and I have participated in over at The Confabulum ...
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