politics – Drew Downs

Between Proper 23 + 24 (Year A)

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2 min read

The passage we are moving into is so often taken for a story of binaries, separation, and articulation, but the question is filled with dishonesty.

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4 min read

War messes with our moral compass. But it is the sense of inevitability that does far more damage. Our work is to enforce those boundaries.

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3 min read

Debates on what clothes make a professional seem reasonable and valuable. But they hide our confusion over our true values.

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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.

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4 min read

At once obvious and devious, focusing on who starts a conflict is a clever way to avoid thinking about who is exploiting it.

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2 min read

When we establish a precedent, we are choosing to follow a certain path. We like to pretend that none of this is our choice.