Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

institutions

  • Why being non-political is a worthy political act

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    5 min read

    The existential challenge for libraries and other institutions is that they are the subject of political attacks the public doesn’t support.

  • The people who don’t want verification

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    2 min read

    With a change to the verification process on Twitter, many see this as another opportunity to engineer chaos.

  • Some Thoughts On Decline

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    6 min read

    There’s a consistency to our talk of decline. What to blame. How to fix it. Talk and action. Still missing the point.

  • Needing to Blame

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    4 min read

    Our response to decline is to blame someone or something for it. But changing our institutions is far more challenging.

  • By What Authority?

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    5 min read

    Who authorized Jesus to teach? We shouldn’t forget that the chief priests and the scribes (in other words the Temple leadership) ask Jesus a pretty fair question: ‘By what authority are you doing these things? Who gave you this authority to do them?’ They didn’t authorize this. They don’t know him. Who is Jesus to…

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