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Category: Engaging the Culture

Not This Week Anyway

Posted on Wednesday, April 12, 2023Wednesday, April 12, 2023 by Douglas Wilson

“The answer is that such a thing is impossible. Being impossible, it may be tentatively ranked among those things that are not going to happen.”

Skin and Blood, p. 96

CategoriesEngaging the Culture TagsChrestomathySelected Quotes

The Politics of Justice, and the Injustice of Politics

Posted on Wednesday, April 12, 2023Tuesday, April 11, 2023 by Douglas Wilson

Introduction: So a court has now come to a verdict on the charges leveled against Paige Patterson. You may recall that there was no little excitement in the Southern Baptist Convention a few years ...

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CategoriesEngaging the Culture TagsA Justice PrimerSex and Culture

The Guilty Pleasure of Guilt

Posted on Tuesday, April 11, 2023Monday, April 10, 2023 by Douglas Wilson

David Stove “refers to whites who ‘having renounced the pleasures of power . . . discover the pleasures of guilt.’ This goes double for the evangelical racial healers, who—in possession of the Holy Spirit—do for our race relations what Benny Hinn does for rheumatoid arthritis.”

Skin and Blood, p. 94

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A Digital Mailbag Filled With Ones and Zeros

Posted on Tuesday, April 11, 2023Monday, April 10, 2023 by Douglas Wilson - 27 comments

Letter to the Editor: Re: How Hymenaeus Struggled With Math Doug; Please don't use "At the end of the day". Ron -- Doug responds: Ron, I understand your point, and take the ...

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CategoriesEngaging the Culture TagsLetters to the EditorOpen ThreadTroll Tuesday

How Context Matters

Posted on Monday, April 10, 2023Monday, April 10, 2023 by Douglas Wilson

“Put another way, black lives matter would be a wonderful sentiment if we found it in a personal letter of William Wilberforce to his mother.”

Skin and Blood, p. 93

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No Authority to Say “Stop”

Posted on Friday, April 7, 2023Friday, April 7, 2023 by Douglas Wilson

“One of the reasons why a justice system has to be manifestly uncorrupted is that people will not stop rioting in the streets in order to let a corrupt system handle their grievances.”

Skin and Blood, p. 87

CategoriesEngaging the Culture TagsChrestomathySelected Quotes

Unless the Museum Is Located in Clown World. Then It’s a Nice Getaway.

Posted on Friday, April 7, 2023Friday, April 7, 2023 by Douglas Wilson
CategoriesEngaging the Culture TagsYour Friday Funny

Not the Best Idea

Posted on Thursday, April 6, 2023Thursday, April 6, 2023 by Douglas Wilson

“To go along with any level of this PC foolishness is like going on a bender in Bangkok and getting a tattoo from a guy whose English is not that strong.”

Skin and Blood, p. 78

CategoriesEngaging the Culture TagsChrestomathySelected Quotes

In the Name of Opposing Lynchings

Posted on Thursday, April 6, 2023Thursday, April 6, 2023 by Douglas Wilson

“To revile due process is to become, in principle, a defender of lynchings.”

Skin and Blood, p. 77

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Mostly Feathers

Posted on Wednesday, April 5, 2023Wednesday, April 5, 2023 by Douglas Wilson

“There are some insufferable bores out there, and there are people who puff themselves up like a barn owl when it is ten below.”

Skin and Blood, pp. 76-77

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