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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

Wednesday, August 14, 2024

Two Short(ish) Thoughts About Socialists and other Nice People to my North

Minnesota isn't Ontario, of course, and Tim Walz isn't a secular Jew and bass player who became passionately devoted to hard and pro...

How Informational Overload Destroyed American Democracy (Maybe)

[A slightly different version of this essay appears in Current .] James Davison Hunter's new book, Democracy and Solidarity: On the Cul...

Tuesday, August 13, 2024

20 Years of In Medias Res

Remember this image? Of course you do. Everyone does. Especially those of us who had already been blogging for years (in my case, five of th...

Monday, August 05, 2024

Thoughts on Dallmayr and a Different Post-Liberalism

[Cross-posted to Front Porch Republic . Also, a blog note: it's been over 10 years since I last used this space to think at length about...

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