Catholicism, Politics and Society in Twentieth-century France Catholicism - once the protean monster - still functions as a complex component of French identity. This volume aims to examine the enduring impact and influence of Catholicism on the life of the nati...

Looking at this but also need something more contemporary books.google.com/books/about/...

I need a good historical primer on post-war French Catholicism—major players, relations with Rome, and major political and cultural events. Anyone have recommendations?

I wrote up my response.

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I dunno, I can never finish reading any of his ridiculous screeds because he capitalizes the most random words.

Kanapé Eulogy

Watched the first season—well done and unnervingly relevant, which was, I’m sure, part of the intent.

Mussolini Challenges Parliament To A Final Showdown | Mussolini: Son Of The Century YouTube video by Sky TV

This really happened, they didn't make it up for dramatization. Mussolini went to the parliament and dared even one of them to move for his impeachment. When none did, it cemented his claim to legitimacy for an absolute dictatorship.

Habermas outlived modernity—respect

Philosophy and anxiety is the worst mix because I can always win the argument with the therapist and by which I mean, anxiety wins

Therapeutic moral deism remains a great descriptor for American Christianity except the moral bit just means moralistic (on occasion) but never actually a deliberation about ethics.

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It’s probably not untrue that these morons larping as combat tacticians are both frauds and men who have leeched off of the labor of those they consider inferior—but they’re also acclimating themselves to the taste of innocent blood, because even for them none of this is normal nor sensible.

In America it always matters who is dying more than it matters that someone is dead—characterizing the resistance in Minneapolis in military terms is the deliberate construction of a narrative which permits and legitimizes the use of deadly force against moms and nurses.

Thought it was pretty good.

Will Jesus Christ return before 2027? Predictions & Odds | Polymarket Real-time odds on "Will Jesus Christ return before 2027?" as of January 2, 2026.

I would assume the people betting yes are also the people who expect to be raptured but then I don’t understand the point of the bet…

no maybe you can’t “read everything in your field” but you can die trying which is basically what a PhD is

A good forum discussion on what is obscured in prevailing debates about migration and the class politics which are actually at stake.

Supreme Court oral argument this morning, in sum

Sotomayor: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (derogatory)

Gorsuch: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (complimentary)

Ostensibly, both are reacting to critiques of foundationalism. But they also want to insulate themselves from the sexual and cultural pluralism emerging out of the 1960s and the bogey-man of postmodernism.

So both reformed epistemology and post-liberal theology emerge during the late 70s/early 80s. The influential figure for the former is Thomas Reid, the founder of what became known as Scottish Common Sense philosophy, while the latter makes use of Wittgenstein’s philosophy of language.

Which part?

Not that there ever was serious or rigorous engagement with either philosophical tradition—as always, better to observe what a reactionary is doing with a concept/tradition rather than be distracted by simple engagement or utilization.

It wasn’t exactly subtle at the time, but it’s painfully clear now that white evangelical reformed appropriation of Scottish common-sense realism and the Wittgenstein concept of language games were both reactionary attempts to contest the emerging social consensus around sexuality and gender norms.

Can’t have a robust sense of what it means to love without some orientation towards what is true and good—together this entails not leaving people to remain as they are, but also respecting their inherent dignity. As always the problem of politics is the question of what it means to be a society.

The New Yorker’s Isaac Chotiner Interviews Santa Claus For several centuries, Santa Claus has been one of the most prolific mythical gift-givers in the world. Formerly known as Saint Nicholas of Myra, a...

I wrote a bit for McSweeney's about Isaac Chotiner interviewing Santa Claus. Just a little something for the holiday season. Enjoy!

Will not forget being told by a senior academic that Britain does not have a “race” problem, only a “class” problem.

All of them…

2+7= _ I caNnot aNswer this qwestion, as it is agaiNst My reLigious principles. ٠١٨٨ IT'S WORTH A SHOT. aMI, 7 january 1986 NAITION

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