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The Trouble with Populism

Posted on Thursday, November 10th, 2022 by Will Cox

“casting their ballots for the party that, despite its other failings, keeps entitlements inviolate, supports collective bargaining and has sought to ease the s...

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Brothers

Posted on Wednesday, August 10th, 2022 by Will Cox

I once was able to escape entirely into books, and could leave the world behind until one was done, no matter the troubles troubling my heart. My brother, a mer...

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Serving Mammon

Posted on Thursday, May 26th, 2022 by Will Cox

On Marketplace last night, Kai Ryssdal stated the unspoken obvious: “Guns are a business. A big business multi-billion dollar business in this country.” I’m rem...

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Evidence

Posted on Saturday, May 21st, 2022 by Will Cox

This here book I’m reading is older than I am, but just by a hair. It was checked out four times before I was born; the last just in time. It remained popular t...

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Summa cum laude

Posted on Friday, May 20th, 2022 by Will Cox

Number One Daughter graduates from SUNY New Paltz tomorrow. What next for her? Number Two Daughter has returned home from for the Summer and is between plans. I...

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An End, But Not The End

Posted on Sunday, May 15th, 2022 by Will Cox

Toward the end of March 2020, searching the Internet for some solace

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No One is Mowing Today

Posted on Thursday, May 12th, 2022 by Will Cox

No one is mowing today. The dawn chorus sang its morning song for hours, until the hint of summer rose too high. Then the mourning dove announced it must be noo...

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The Outliers

Posted on Sunday, August 15th, 2021 by Will Cox

The population bump has reached the right-hand end of the curve: “The aging of baby boomers, those born between 1946 and 1964, who were ages 57 to 75 in 2...

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Making Mountains out of Motu Proprio Traditionis Custodes

Posted on Saturday, July 17th, 2021 by Will Cox

Pope Francis yesterday published, motu proprio, Traditionis custodes, revising certain regulations regarding the observance of what is commonly called the Tradi...

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Posted on Wednesday, April 7th, 2021 by Will Cox

Learning matters for its own sake, because human beings are essentially knowers, or lovers, or both. Zena Hitz, Lost in Thought (2020), p. 112

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There is no pent-up demand

Posted on Friday, April 2nd, 2021 by Will Cox

A story on Marketplace yesterday on euphoric shoppers on a spree after getting vaccinated suggests that there is pent-up demand that will explode once the enfor...

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Roundabouts make better intersections

Posted on Thursday, April 1st, 2021 by Will Cox

I hate cars. But really what I hate are the changes attendant on cars: the distance, the ugliness, the isolation, the fear. I hate the distance between houses, ...

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Tinnitus

Posted on Sunday, March 28th, 2021 by Will Cox

About a month ago, shortly after my annual physical, I was sitting in the quiet between the ending of the daily conference calls and dinner, and I noticed a sou...

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Missing Conversations

Posted on Tuesday, March 16th, 2021 by Will Cox

The advantage of Twitter, Facebook, and their ilk is that you can see your readers, all two of them, and they might become interlocutors. While I like talking t...

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Wallowing

Posted on Saturday, March 6th, 2021 by Will Cox

I’m trying to enjoy Katherine May’s Wintering (2020) 📚 but I’m full instead of envy. I’ve carried that sin for years; it’s always close to the surface. Wh...

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For Whom the Bell Tolls

Posted on Monday, February 22nd, 2021 by Will Cox

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Preparations for the Storm

Posted on Monday, February 22nd, 2021 by Will Cox

Waffle mixing here soon. I think perhaps coffee may be in order. I started reading Love in the Western World (1940). Twenty pages in the author is introducing h...

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Little Fictions

Posted on Saturday, February 20th, 2021 by Will Cox

I’ve been reading a fair amount of space opera and political science fiction recently: The Expanse, Old Mans War, A Memory Called Empire, Too Like the Lig...

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Saturday, neither in the park nor the fourth of July

Posted on Saturday, February 20th, 2021 by Will Cox

What will I make for breakfast this morning? I had a thought last night before bed, but I didn’t write it down and now don’t remember. I’m rea...

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Parables of the Present

Posted on Monday, February 1st, 2021 by Will Cox

Started Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower (1993) 📚 this morning. Right away, I think: What do people think they will gain when society collapses? There̵...

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