2a. But first a little digression on the nature of these twitter essays. They are NOT editorials or op-ed pieces where I pontificate on high
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2b My twitter essays are essays in the original French meaning of the term: attempts, exercises in thinking out loud, provisional thoughts
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2c I've more than once changed my mind or the direction of my thought mid-stream in a twitter essay based on someone's comments.
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2d It's precisely because I respond to peoples comments while thinking out loud I use twitter essay format & not blogging or something else
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3. So: as some will recall, my initial reaction to
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4. But I got some interesting pushback from my closest and smartest friend which I want to share.
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5. The argument for
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6. The magazine's tropism towards middle-of-the-road moderation often mitigates tremendous talent of staff and writers.
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7. A couple of years ago I was once asked to write a critique of
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8. With the tactfulness & diplomacy that have made me such a beloved figure in Canadian life, I wrote magazine at its worst brutally boring
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9. Boredom factor that creeps into magazine comes form it sometimes avoiding picking fights out of desire for moderation & balance.
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10. As an example, magazine did a profile of late Richard John Neuhaus, Canadian born theocratic thinker who had big impact on USA right
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11. Neuhaus hugely controversial figure: called for "regime change" in USA, a theocrat. Norman Podhoretz thought he was too right wing.
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