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Coexist

Posted on February 15, 2023 by nathanalbright

On the back bumpers of cars driven by people whose behaviors and beliefs would likely fail to meet the proper standards of any decent ethical system, one can often find stickers with various symbols of religious movements that spell out … Continue reading →

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Return To Sender

Posted on July 28, 2022 by nathanalbright

When we think about communication, to the extent that we do, I do not believe we pay enough attention to why communication exists. It exists because someone has a message that they want to send to someone. Often when we … Continue reading →

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The Side Benefits Of Respect For The Tribunal

Posted on May 28, 2022 by nathanalbright

Most of the time, for most of us, conflict can be a very unpleasant experience, one that most of us are not inclined to enjoy. Judging from the testimony of attorneys at law, though, this experience of conflict is a … Continue reading →

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In Defense Of Bad Novels: Part Four

Posted on January 22, 2021 by nathanalbright

We have previously discussed bad novels as being worthy of defense, and a couple of grounds for defending bad novels in terms of the questions that they raise and the preoccupations that they show. I would like to close this … Continue reading →

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A Well-Armed Society Is A Polite Society

Posted on January 5, 2021 by nathanalbright

One of the most profound similarities between the generally antagonistic cultures of the Antebellum white South and contemporary black culture is something that is also shared with the culture of Southeast Asia that I witnessed in my time in Thailand. … Continue reading →

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Cum Enim Omnia Saeva

Posted on September 14, 2020 by nathanalbright

What is it that makes our contemporary situation so harsh and savage when it comes to politics? To be sure, I feel the savagery as much as anyone else does, and perhaps unlike most, I wish to understand it. What … Continue reading →

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On The Relationship Between Reading And Writing And Grammar

Posted on August 11, 2020 by nathanalbright

It is perhaps unsurprising that reading and writing and grammar have all been taught at the same time.  In many ways these tasks are interrelated together.  Reading is one of the main ways that we gain information (and misinformation) about … Continue reading →

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The Unspoken Conversations

Posted on August 9, 2020 by nathanalbright

One of the things that fascinates me is conversations that are left unsaid.  And being a person who both talks a lot and does not talk nearly enough simultaneously, it is perhaps unsurprising that I would notice the unspoken conversations … Continue reading →

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In Praise Of Tone Policing

Posted on June 23, 2020 by nathanalbright

Among all the beleaguered and assaulted forms of policing in our present evil world, I would like to stand up today in defense of one of the most obscure forms of policing, and that is tone policing.  As anyone who … Continue reading →

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Hermenteutics Of Meanness

Posted on May 30, 2020 by nathanalbright

The more I look around the world, and see the issues that exist in communication, the more I become aware that the absence of the hermeneutic of charity is one of the most essential aspects of the problems that we … Continue reading →

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