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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

Friday, March 22, 2024

Why Even Uneventful Primaries are Better than Raucous Caucuses

[This is an expanded version of an Insight Kansas column which appeared in the Wichita Eagle today , March 22, 2024] When my wife and I wen...

Sunday, March 10, 2024

Do We Really Not Need Another Hero? (Thoughts About Dune)

Exactly a week ago, I and bunch of local Dune -loving friends caught Denis Villeneuve's Dune Part 2 in IMAX. It was glorious--a fantast...

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

What the Constitution Says About Parents, Public Schools, and Students' Gender, and What it Doesn't (Yet)

[An expanded version of a piece which appeared in the Wichita Eagle and elsewhere on February 27, 2024.] What does the law actually say ...

Monday, January 15, 2024

Some Thoughts on Martin Luther King, Mormonism, and the Unfinishable Christian Witness Against War

Minerva Teichert, “Christian Converts” (1949-1951), Brigham Young University Museum ...

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