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Executive Functions | Tree of Talking
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Being at home in the world, and more. October 30, 2016. Middot; by treeoftalking. Middot; in Uncategorized. Middot; Leave a comment. I am also writing the occasional movie review for a local free weekly, the Arkansas Times (see a list of my work here. Oh, and I also have my regular nine-to-five job. So it’s been quite the last few months. My broader point is this We tend to envision (and thus produce) hierarchies as strictly top-down affairs, and thus be imbue the top position with greater prestige and h...
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March | 2016 | Tree of Talking
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Being at home in the world, and more. Monthly Archives: March 2016. In which I review “God’s Not Dead 2”. March 30, 2016. Middot; by treeoftalking. Middot; in Uncategorized. Middot; 1 Comment. March 19, 2016. Middot; by treeoftalking. Middot; in Uncategorized. Middot; Leave a comment. You are not being persecuted. March 13, 2016. Middot; by treeoftalking. Middot; in Uncategorized. Middot; Leave a comment. Recently, the Franklin County School Board in Tennessee debated ending all after school clubs as a r...
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August | 2016 | Tree of Talking
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Being at home in the world, and more. Monthly Archives: August 2016. The Trolley Problem Writ Large. August 18, 2016. Middot; by treeoftalking. Middot; in Uncategorized. Middot; 1 Comment. Arkansas Times: Street Jazz. Council for Secular Humanism. Dialogues on Historical Justice and Memory. Esquire Daily Politics Blog. Girl Walk / All Day. Greta Christina's Blog. Interface: A Journal for and about Social Movements. Jan Guillou, Aftonbladet (Swedish). Marx and Philosophy Review of Books. The Militant One ...
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Being at home in the world, and more. Resistance Is Utile, Part 2: Join! January 16, 2017. Middot; by treeoftalking. Middot; in Uncategorized. Middot; Leave a comment. Since the election of Donald Trump, I’ve been revisiting the novels of John Le Carre, well known for producing genuinely literary works within the spy novel genre. It seems to me that there are three phases to his work. In his earlier novels, he treats spying as a game. That is to say, he refuses […]. January 16, 2017. November 24, 2016.
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Being at home in the world, and more. When the System Cannot Change. September 10, 2016. Middot; by treeoftalking. Middot; in Uncategorized. Middot; Leave a comment. William Lindsey over at Bilgrimage has recently been examining in some depth the lack of change in the Catholic Church following the inauguration of Francis as pope. Though I am now a decade outside the church (longer than I was ever actually in it, if we’re just counting the Catholic years of my life), I do still […]. August 18, 2016. So ye...
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February | 2016 | Tree of Talking
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Being at home in the world, and more. Monthly Archives: February 2016. February 13, 2016. Middot; by treeoftalking. Middot; in Uncategorized. Middot; Leave a comment. So I ordered a book through Abebooks a while back, and when it arrived, I discovered that all of the pages were uncut. In case you didn’t know, older printing technologies produced books whose pages had to be cut apart from each other before they could be read. This particular volume could have come straight […]. Arkansas Times: Street Jazz.
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October | 2016 | Tree of Talking
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Being at home in the world, and more. Monthly Archives: October 2016. October 30, 2016. Middot; by treeoftalking. Middot; in Uncategorized. Middot; Leave a comment. So it has been a busy few months for me. First, I have been teaching a class, Power, Privilege, and Oppression, at the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service. I had not intended to teach again this semester, having taught a class on race and public policy in the spring, but the person […]. Grandma and Her Gun. October 8, 2016.
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The Politically Correct Parlor | Tree of Talking
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Being at home in the world, and more. The Politically Correct Parlor. November 15, 2016. Middot; by treeoftalking. Middot; in Uncategorized. Middot; Leave a comment. Most transactions entail some little pain: it hurts to part with good money, it hurts to admit that you are wrong. But respect for someone else’s existence can minimize that, not only for the other person, but also for you yourself. As Flannery O’Connor wrote, the life you save may be your own. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Girl Walk / All Day.
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