Category: culture
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In Defense of Christian Un-Love
Why loving Donald Trump’s supporters might be too much to ask of this particular Christian.
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Can I love you without knowing your Myers-Briggs type?
Apparently it’s been common knowledge for a while, but I’m just hearing about the relative uselessness of the Myers-Briggs test. This is great news as someone who has taken the test many times (as required by different jobs) yet struggles to remember my profile and why it matters, much less how my profile is supposed to interact…
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David Foster Wallace on the Limits of Irony
GROSS: Yeah, well, I think it’s – I think it’s just, like, very perceptive of you to put your finger on the limitations of, like, the need for irony but at the same time, the limitations of irony. WALLACE: Irony, as far as I could see – and, you know, you can take college courses…
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Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates has written a book that is beautiful, tender, and painful. Readers will wince for reasons that will depend on how they’ve experienced this country’s obsession with race. Between the World and Me ought to solidify Coates’ as our generation’s James Baldwin, something I’ve been saying for a couple of years though that comparison is way more credible…
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“What we believe on the inside can never be removed from what we do on the outside.”
Yesterday evening I attended a poster show hosted by Iraq Veterans Against the War. I went with a friend who is a veteran and who has worked with this group for a long time. The posters were well done but this particular one caught my eye. A portion at the bottom of the poster read: Joshua…
David W. Swanson 