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Mine too, but given my line of work, I struggle with veiled racism in discussions of "appropriate" jobs all the time, so I'm probably a bit more tuned in to it than your average bear. I imagine the same might be a bit true of you, as you are also no stranger to academia.

Biden, hands down. This is mostly a audiovisual problem. In words, Trump pretty blatantly refused to answer any questions that might cast him in a poor light, and lied about the things he did say in way that made it obvious he was just lying and daring anyone to call him out on it. That doesn't...

You were fortunate to meet him during his relatively brief tenure in the role. He passed long before my own time, alas, though when I was studying at the Graduate Theological Union, there were many there who remembered him well and fondly.

I found this x thread compilation humorous though: https://www.theroot.com/black-twitter-hilariously-goes-off-on-former-president-1851566479 Of course, white people routinely complain about people taking "white jobs" (before the 90s) or "American jobs" (in the dogwhistle era) being taken away...

I would agree with that. Perhaps I should have said "ultimate agency" is the myth. Ours is a universe of contingent agencies. Ask not at whom the buck stops, for every desk anwers to another desk.

Also true. The Lavender scare wasn't a travesty because all of its accusations were false, but because the heroic gays and lesbians who had (disproportionately by number) kept the lights on and the legislation moving during our nation's most perilous foreign war deserved to be treated better...

Indisputably true. I would not claim otherwise. The problem is Joe's campaign, not Joe's Washington, which is more functional than it has been in a very long time despite an almost complete lack of participation on the part of the other two branches. I firmly believe historians will remember him...

Definitely not. His views were very radical, but no less faithful. He described himself once as "God-obsessed, but skeptical of this character God that is so loosely based on a truth that words can't reach". Spong's God was a bit like the Tao of Lao Tse, inexpressible without corruption even in...

In neither of the historical cases I mentioned was the final scandal used to justify the degradation of rights actually rooted in reality. But if it takes 30-50 years for the truth to come to light, gross miscarriages of justice can occur, and if enough time passes, the truth will never be known...

Of course computation happens. Agency is the comforting myth (and speech genre, I suppose!)

Oh, Barbos... That's not really Hitler. That is a talented actor named Bruno Ganz, portraying Hitler in a 2004 historical drama about the end of Hitler's life. Someone has edited it together with images from Thursday's debate, as a joke. As part of said joke, the subtitles incorrectly translate...

Very true. But the problem with saying "we should only disenfranchise a large section of the population if you can prove that x is really happening" is that then, thousands of people lose rights every time a crime happens. Or is just alleged to have done. People are people, eventually there will...

Yes, I know he has people. Whoever runs his X account gets off some damn good zingers every now and then. From what I've seen, much of the work in DC these days is accomplished by highly educated, underpaid, queer staffers and aides of color. They do not decide the White House's policies, though.

At least I read books.

He was nice about it, but even Obama tacitly admitted that the debate was a bit of a disaster:

In regular life, the practical art of politesse demands nothing from me but such half-truths and generous abstractions as my students and colleagues are prepared to entertain. In forumland, I indulge in the temporary luxury of being uncouth, but blessedly correct.

Indeed. Accuracy is not always emotionally satisfying.

Skeptics routinely challenge the historicity of the Biblical events based on a paucity of contemporary documents describing them. But if GMark is too late to count as a plausible eyewitness account, then Origen is really too late.

In fairness, though John Shelby Spong was a bishop, he also considered himself an atheist, and his proposed reforms to the church were so considerable in scope that I'm not sure the resulting permutation of Anglicanism would have been considered Christian by most other followers of the faith. I...

They do, although this erases the implications of some important biblical passages. It is always harder to achieve translation into a more linguistically removed tongue. Romance language translations of the Bible are sometimes more accurate for this reason, being at least slightly more inflected...