Friday, October 31, 2025

Listening to Lennon #6: Rock 'n' Roll (along with McCartney's CHOBA B CCCP and Run Devil Run)

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It would be nice to believe that Lennon wanted, in early 1975, with his immigration woes and his conflicts with the U.S. government apparent...
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Sunday, October 26, 2025

Two Comments and Two Questions about Religious Liberty

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[Cross-posted to By Common Consent ]  Last week I attended the " Kansas Summit for Religious Freedom ," a gathering designed to pr...
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Listening to Lennon #5: Walls and Bridges

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Lennon recorded  Walls and Bridges  back in New York City, in the summer of 1974, after having lived for most of the previous year away from...
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Sunday, September 07, 2025

Rauch Among the Mormons

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[Cross-posted to By Common Consent ] Jonathan Rauch’s Cross Purposes: Christianity's Broken Bargain with Democracy , the latest book by ...
Sunday, August 31, 2025

Could President Trump Take Over Policing in Wyandotte County? (A Brief Primer on Presidential Power at our Current Moment)

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[An expanded version of my Insight Kansas column, which appeared in Kansas newspapers this weekend.] Three weeks ago, President Trump dec...

Listening to Lennon #4: Mind Games

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Mind Games is usually seen as Lennon backing away from the direct, seemingly (but in actual fact almost never truly) spontaneous engagement...
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Monday, August 11, 2025

An Urban History of Prosperity’s Menace, and Those Who Sought (and Still Seek) to Tame It

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[ Cross-posted to Front Porch Republic ] Regarding Abundance One of the big topics of conversation among left-leaning and liberal pund...