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And with prefab humor, too. P.S. “Schmuckler”, eh? I actually think that that may be a new one, though my memory of sixth grade is admittedly a bit foggy. UPDATE: More here.
Filed under: conservatism, media/culture, personal
Both of them elsewhere, though. First of all, I’m honored to have been invited to contribute to the Commonweal blog, and my first post over there takes on Joe Carter’s recent criticisms of “theistic evolution”: If God is omniscient, then his knowledge of the course of evolution is eternally perfect – and whether the evolutionary [...]
Filed under: environment, personal, religion, science/tech
In which I respond to Conor’s post on a terrific – and terrifying – essay by Johann Hari, by reposting a now-vaporized column I wrote on fishery depletion for Culture11, over at The American Scene. Here’s the nub: According to the conditions that prevail at the overwhelming majority of the world’s fisheries, many different fishermen [...]
Filed under: environment, food, government/law, personal
by JL Wall Some attentive readers out there may have noticed that, shortly after John went on vacation, I dropped off too — end of the academic year; papers to write and paperwork to fill out and a general need for clearheadedness. I’ll be back sometime next week, but until then, I leave you with [...]
Filed under: miscellany, personal
We just flew in from Virginia, and boy, are my arms tired. (No, really: carrying a beefy two-year-old through the airport is a hard day’s work.) All in all, it was a nice trip: some very good time with family, a pleasant visit to the area where we’ll be living next year (and by the [...]
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By H.C. Johns Hello all! As John said yesterday in his extremely generous introduction, I will be guest blogging here (and at own my blog, The Other Right) for the next few weeks while he is on vacation. This is very exciting for me, as I’ve been reading Upturned Earth since quite a ways back [...]
Filed under: agriculture, personal, philosophy
But first, these may be the smartest sentences I’ve read so far about Obama’s speech at Notre Dame: … There is no straight line between doubt and a universalized discourse; doubt has a background too, and in the case of Catholic faith its not one that necessarily defaults to secular reasoning. (Not incidentally, this is [...]
Filed under: personal, philosophy, politics, religion
This terrifying Megan McArdle post reminds me that we’re going to be in the DC area in a week or so, and were planning to take Jack to the Smithsonian one afternoon to look at the dinosaur bones. For a variety of reasons, we’re stuck driving instead of taking Metro, so anyone out there have [...]
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Welcome to the new Upturned Earth! JL and I are quite excited to be here, and very grateful to Dan and Kara for the invitation to join up with TAC‘s fast-expanding online media empire. No doubt many of you are familiar with this blog, but if you’re not one of those many then why not [...]
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American Conservative readers who’ve received the latest issue – out here in the People’s Republic we tend for some reason* to run about two weeks late – may already have noticed that, in addition to having averted the threat of suspending publication and switched from a biweekly to a monthly format, the magazine that gave [...]
Filed under: media/culture, personal