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Sometime scholar of American history, religion, and culture. Author Acts of Conscience. From Wisconsin to the East Coast and back again. Posts about cultural, intellectual, and political life.
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US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks. https://go.nature.com/4kd1vIu

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Incisive @sbagen.bsky.social essay on why the courts will not save us (though they might help a little). “Litigation is not an end in itself. We need to see it as a focal point for a broader political mobilization against the Administration.” buttondown.com/sbagen/archi...

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Anyone who cares about the core principles our of government will need to protect civil servants who defend the law. But a defensive crouch is the wrong response. If you’re mad about what Musk is doing to government, it’s time to go on the offense to reform it. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/o...

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Ezra Klein's take on the first weeks of the Trump administration. “The real threat is if he convinces the rest of us to believe he has power he does not have.” Don't believe him. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8QL...

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Good morning. I wrote about the RFK Jr., Christian homeschoolng, and the political maturity of the "crunchy cons." www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/u...

submitted 29 days ago • 4 comments

For "One First," I wrote about Monday's OMB memo purporting to (temporarily) freeze billions of dollars of appropriated federal spending—and why it constitutes both unconstitutional and unlawful "impoundment" that's unlikely to be upheld by even *this* #SCOTUS: www.stevevladeck.com/p/120-the-im...

submitted 31 days ago • 83 comments

Essential reading for today by @pahlkadot.bsky.social Why didn't voters care more about "the rule of law?" Because the law is no longer "a blindfolded Lady Justice demonstrating impartiality and reasonableness, it’s a game of gotcha."

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An exhibit of lost and imaginary books www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/a...

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Lately I've been thinking about this haunting 1914 poem by Vachel Lindsay, "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight" www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47372/...

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