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• Some Big Capitalists Do It Right

  

  [Cross-posted to Front Porch Republic]From what I can tell, most businesses, once they get to a certain size, cannot avoid be lured into the American... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2013 SOCIETY

• Margaret Thatcher, RIP

  For those of us of a certain age, and a certain political sensibility, this is the way we'll remember the Iron Lady.Requiescat in pace, Margaret Thatcher, one o... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2013 SOCIETY

• Saturday Night Live Music: "Dead Man's Rope"

  It's Holy Saturday; tomorrow is Easter Day. So, a song from an artist who politely rejects the Christian faith, but who has nonetheless captured here the faith'... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2013 SOCIETY

• 10 Years of Blogging

  

  So, I started blogging 10 years ago today. (Just about at this exact moment, too.) We're on the road today--driving from Mississippi to Florida as part of a... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2013 SOCIETY

• Saturday Night Live Music: "Little Wing"

  I feel bad at having not been able to find any live footage of the haunting, idiosyncratic jazz singer Cassandra Wilson on performing her pieces from Blood on... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2013 SOCIETY

• Resolving Existential Crises Through Philosophy And/or Film (or, My Dinner with...

  

  [Cross-posted to By Common Consent]Last night, our delightful, thoughtful, ambitious, and very smart oldest daughter, now aged sixteen (and getting ready to... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2013 SOCIETY

• Saturday Night Live Music: "Soul for Sale"

  Wynton Marsalis's reputation has gone through several ups and downs over the thirty years he's been active, but no one can ever deny his enormous energy and... Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2013 SOCIETY

• Communities and Herder's Political Thought

  

  Vicki Spencer's excellent Herder's Political Thought: A Study on Language, Culture, and Community is the second scholarly work on Johann Gottfried Herder I... Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2013 SOCIETY

• Something About Which Leftists, Localists, and Libertarians (But Probably Not...

  

  [Cross-posted to Front Porch Republic]Senator Rand Paul's filibuster of the nomination of John Brennan to be head of the CIA--something that he did in order to... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2013 SOCIETY

• Bollywood Did This to My Daughter

  Okay, so Melissa and I have been getting this announcement about our first daughter up around Facebook and elsewhere, but I haven't put in on my blog yet. Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2013 SOCIETY

• 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