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In Medias Res
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Essays, notes, and fragments--personal, political, and philosophical--from the midst of things
LATEST ARTICLES ( 589 )
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Religion, Gays, and Minority Rights in the American Community
This past weekend I got into a discussion on Facebook with some friends of mine over Damon Linker's latest (and, I think, very smart) opinion piece. Read more
Posted on 04 March 2013 SOCIETY -
My Final (?) Mormon Moment Thoughts
[Cross-posted to By Common Consent] Over the past 20 months or so, I--like a lot of other Mormon academics and bloggers--have found myself being contacted by... Read more
Posted on 04 March 2013 SOCIETY -
The Five Best Television Detectives Ever
I've finally finished watching the very last Prime Suspect, the justly celebrated series of British police programs that ran from the early 90s to the late... Read more
Posted on 03 March 2013 SOCIETY -
Saturday Night Live Music: "Look At That Girl"
I didn't realize that I'd been catching music by the brilliant British guitarist and songwriter John Martyn, on the occasional Eric Clapton or Phil Collins... Read more
Posted on 24 February 2013 SOCIETY -
My Giant
[Cross-posted to By Common Consent] Today, February 11, my father James Russell Fox (who was named after his father, James Wesley "Little Bill" Fox, who was in... Read more
Posted on 11 February 2013 SOCIETY -
Herder and Relativism (Enlightened and Otherwise)
Johann Gottfried Herder, a late 18th-century German pastor, educator, translator, literary critic, and philosopher, consumed much of my life and thought from... Read more
Posted on 08 February 2013 SOCIETY -
House of Commons Approves Same-Sex Marriage in Great Britain
A triumphant day for supporters of marriage equality Read more
Posted on 06 February 2013 DEBATE, FAMILY, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX, MARRIAGE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Saturday Night Live Music: "Stairway to Heaven"
I'm going to revive this feature, for a little while anyway, and I can't think of a better song to start the revival with than Led Zeppelin's classic,... Read more
Posted on 03 February 2013 SOCIETY -
Disney Does It Right
kjjjI agree with the film critic from The Telegraph: this is the best work of animation from Disney that I've seen in years. I saw it twice in the theater--the... Read more
Posted on 31 January 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, SOCIETY, TV & VIDEO -
Glenn Beck Gives Utopia a Bad Name
[Cross-posted to Front Porch Republic] So Glenn Beck has proposed his grandest scheme yet: the construction of separate planned community, literally built aroun... Read more
Posted on 15 January 2013 SOCIETY -
Behind the Beautiful Forevers, and the Ground on Which Communities Are Built
[Cross-posted to Front Porch Republic]The final sentence in Behind the Beautiful Forevers--Katherine Boo's wonderfully written, devastatingly detailed... Read more
Posted on 07 January 2013 SOCIETY -
Why Haven't I Seen The Hobbit Yet?
It's January 3, 2013, and I still haven't made it to the theater to see The Hobbit. Why not?Party because of all the partially negative (or at least... Read more
Posted on 03 January 2013 SOCIETY -
All Creatures Great and Small
[Cross-posted to By Common Consent]My father decided that we needed to learn how to work--and since he ran a feed mill, getting farm animals that we could feed... Read more
Posted on 24 December 2012 SOCIETY -
Conservative Wisdom from an Original Radical
[Cross-posted to Front Porch Republic]Last Friday, Tom Hayden, co-founder of the Students for a Democratic Society, principal author of 1962's Port Huron... Read more
Posted on 10 December 2012 SOCIETY -
Dave Brubeck, RIP
A year and a half ago, we lost Joe Morello. Now, David Brubeck has joined him. Of the greatest cool jazz quarter of all time--Brubeck on piano, Morello on drums... Read more
Posted on 05 December 2012 SOCIETY -
Home Teaching and the Miracle of Interruption
[Cross-posted to By Common Consent]Yesterday, I and another member of our church went to talk and counsel with a family in our congregation. (In Mormon parlance... Read more
Posted on 26 November 2012 SOCIETY -
Posner's Wrong About the Electoral College
Richard Posner has written a defense of the Electoral College, which is one of the several elements of our national Constitution which I don't like. I read his... Read more
Posted on 13 November 2012 SOCIETY -
Why I'm Not Troubled by My Decision Not to Vote to Re-Elect Obama, Round II
This morning I dropped my oldest daughter off at an early-morning church class, then drove to another church, which happens to be our local polling station. I... Read more
Posted on 06 November 2012 SOCIETY -
The Best Book I've Read This Political Season (About the Last One)
Writing a book on current events is a complicated crap-shoot. In an age of blogs, social media, and basically instantaneous communication, to write and get... Read more
Posted on 01 November 2012 SOCIETY -
Why I'm Not Troubled by My Decision Not to Vote to Re-Elect Obama
[Cross-posted to Political Context] About three weeks ago Conor Friedersdorf, a libertarianish blogger for The Atlantic, put up a post about how even those who... Read more
Posted on 16 October 2012 SOCIETY