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In 1920s US under Prohibition, there was a similar phenomenon. When bars turned into speakeasies, flaunting the law became cool. And that had real consequences. #BeerBaseballAndTheBible
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"Do Everything" is the motto that kept the Women's Christian Temperance Union from achieving Prohibition. Doing only one thing is what helped the Anti-Saloon League achieve it. #BeerBaseballAndTheBible
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My brand of Christianity is the curious kind, which I’m sure marks it as an outlier in most people’s conception of how Christians in America have behaved in public for the past century. #FundamentalistModernistControversy #BeerBaseballAndTheBible
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H.L. Mencken wishes he could come back to life now, to have Tommy Tuberville to write about. #BeerBaseballAndTheBible
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This is interesting, because, like #Prohibition, what Lee is doing is seeing something he thinks is a societal problem (agree with him or not) and trying to use government to solve it. #BeerBaseballAndTheBible
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Making Porn illegal would go over just about as well as Prohibition did. #BeerBaseballAndTheBible
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Gatsby 100 years later tells us a lot about our present political moment. #BeerBaseballAndTheBible religionnews.com/2025/05/08/g...
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Teapot Dome? What's that? #BeerBaseballAndTheBible
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You make me want to read "Bright Lights, Big City." Gatsby seems a particularly relevant text for our current political moment. #BeerBaseballAndTheBible
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It's an interesting counter-position. In the class I used to teach called #BeerBaseballAndTheBible, I used to use the famous "Descent of the Modernists" image. We talked about the fundamentalist-modernist debate within many protestant churches. It's an underappreciated part of our history.
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This is important. The #UrbanRuralDivide is real, but we aren't very curious about it. We should be. #BigMessyAmerica #BeerBaseballAndTheBible
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This whole thread has been an interesting discussion on the #urbanruraldivide in American politics. #BeerBaseballAndTheBible
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There's something that strikes me about the current administration and the "tear it all down" approach to governing. It sounds a little like the setting of a hardboiled novel, except the detective hero is now president. #BeerBaseballAndTheBible en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardboi...
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I used to teach a class called #BeerBaseballAndTheBible about literature and culture of the 1920s. The #urbanruraldivide was one of the big themes. The 1920 census was the first in US history where more Americans lived in urban areas than rural ones.
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In "Eight Men Out," there is a scene where 1B Chick Gandil is talking to Sport Sullivan, the hustler. Gandil says, "The way I see it, if you aren't playing the angles, you're a sap." I think of this as the #SuckerEconomy, the idea that we're all either con artists or marks. #BeerBaseballAndTheBible
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My interest in amateurism is multifaceted. The amateur-professional tension was something that came up in my #BeerBaseballAndTheBible class. Baseball was one of the first sports in America to go from an Amateur (club, park) era to a Professional (front office, stadium) era.
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Come on @warren.senate.gov, let’s not slur amateurism here. These guys aren’t playing for the love of the game, they’re in it for the dough. #BeerBaseballAndTheBible
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Oppress the Irish: now that’s a new and original thought for you. Haven’t heard of that one before. Why don’t you go ahead and ban booze while you’re at it? #BeerBaseballAndTheBible ☘️
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This is some solid #MAPoli analysis. And there's an urban-rural tension underneath it that is worth paying attention to. #BigMessyAmerica #BeerBaseballAndTheBible www.masslive.com/politics/202...
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One of the things that gave us the FDR coalition was the campaign to end Prohibition. #BeerBaseballAndTheBible
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Yes, I know! I used to have students watch it in my #BeerBaseballAndTheBible class.
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Thinking about going to Chicago in a couple of weeks. Thinking about the Black Sox. #Varticles #BeerBaseballAndTheBible www.nepm.org/commentaries...
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During Prohibition, there were politicians who were called “wet drys”— they had their own personal wine cellars, but voted for prohibition laws. Keep in mind, Prohibition was IN THE CONSTITUTION. It’s this flexibility in pursuit of power that’s the problem. #BeerBaseballAndTheBible
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