Brian A. Smith

@briansmith1980

Managing Editor of . Author, Walker Percy and the Politics of the Wayfarer. . Opinions my own.

Joined January 2018

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    12 Sep 2018

    Walker Percy: an antidote to living in deranged times.

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    Mar 5

    I think both Cuomo and Trump are morally grotesque failures responsible for too many deaths. It’s telling who can only admit this is true about one of them

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  4. Mar 5

    Mill’s moralism is of a peculiar sort—one that steadfastly denies its moralism even as it imposes it. And this, too, is part of Mill’s legacy in American law. on John Lawrence Hill's Prophet of Modern Constitutional Liberalism:

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  5. Mar 5

    If the First Amendment means anything, it protects the right of persons to hold traditionalist beliefs about marriage and frame reasonable plans of life based on those beliefs. on Fulton:

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  6. Mar 5

    In Art and Faith, 's theology of making aims at fortifying us against the pragmatism that tends to colonize our thought and action.

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  7. Mar 4

    The desire for social justice, whatever that exactly means, should not give rise to facile ideological thinking and to utopian misrepresentations of the wellsprings of the human soul.

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    Mar 3

    lol good luck finding someone with those qualifications who won’t get canceled on day one of the job

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    Mar 3

    Perhaps we need to retrain ourselves to hear the true implications of the ideas behind social justice ideology.

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    Mar 3

    Alex Pollock of offers thoughts on mounting deficit spending and the inflation to follow:

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    The world changes *fast.* yesterday Dr Seuss was fine. Today, I click on Dr Seuss trending and am hit with this cautionary message 😩.

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    Mar 1

    California is a dystopian nightmare.

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    Mar 2

    The correct response to reading a denunciation of someone in Pravda was not “I wonder if it’s true” but “I wonder who he pissed off.” It’s Third World media stuff.

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  16. Mar 2

    Theodore Dalyrmple on Ray Takeyh's The Last Shah:

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  17. Mar 2

    There may be more pandemics in the years to come, and for ordinary citizens, there are limits to what we can do to be prepared. on embodiment and covid-shame:

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  18. Mar 2

    Are those desiring to wield power willing to cause much higher inflation to keep it? Alex Pollock returns to :

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  19. Mar 1

    For Boomers, the natural state of the world is for everybody to be rich, and for society to work well. talks to about her new book:

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  20. Mar 1

    Today’s constitutional conservatives so single-mindedly protect against getting the Constitution wrong that the aspiration to get it right becomes secondary.

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  21. Mar 1

    Meyer insisted that the individual’s innate dignity is conservatism’s “first principle” and that it demands vigorous limitations on state power in politics and economics.

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