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In Medias Res

Essays, notes, and fragments--personal, political, and philosophical--from the midst of things

"Provocative, yet flawed."--Stephen Schneck

Sunday, March 30, 2025

Thoughts on Dylan

1) I saw Bob Dylan on Saturday here in Wichita, which was only the second show of his 2025 extension of his never ending tour (nominally su...

Thursday, February 20, 2025

Minding Laurie Johnson’s Gap

[Cross-posted to Front Porch Republic ] President Trump has been in office a month as of today, and the maelstrom of orders and actions wh...

Monday, January 27, 2025

Leslie's Love Story in Songs, and Ours Too.

Ian Leslie's John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs is a terrific book. I say that as a major Beatles fan, though not, as I've conf...

Wednesday, January 01, 2025

Justice Together: Praying, Planning, and Partly (but Not Yet Entirely) Pushed Aside in Wichita

[Cross-posted to Wichita Story ] Before Christmas, I had some complimentary things to say about Wichita’s city council . Here at the end o...

Tuesday, December 31, 2024

The 10 Best Books I Read in 2024

Ian Angus, The War against the Commons: Dispossession and Resistance in the Making of Capitalism (2023) and Wendell Berry, The Need to ...

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