Category Archives: Politics

LQCs: Moral Collapse, the Paranoid Style, Deflection

Posted on Tuesday 17 May 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

(With an endpiece.) Paul Krugman is back from vacation. NYT, Paul Krugman, 16 May 2022: From Voodoo to MAGA to Buffalo I never thought I’d say this, but I miss voodoo economics.

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LQCs: Fringe Conspiracy Theories Becoming Mainstream; Duplicity; Sharpening of Focus

Posted on Monday 16 May 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

NYT, 15 May 2022: A Fringe Conspiracy Theory, Fostered Online, Is Refashioned by the G.O.P., subtitled, “Replacement theory, espoused by the suspect in the Buffalo massacre, has been embraced by some right-wing politicians and commentators.”

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LQCs: Replacement theory, High School biology, Y2K, Macho puffery

Posted on Sunday 15 May 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

The New Yorker, Kathleen Belew (assistant professor of history at U of Chicago) interviewed by Isaac Chotiner, 15 May 2022: Making Sense of the Racist Mass Shooting in Buffalo, subtitled, “An expert on the white-power movement and the ‘great replacement’ … Continue reading →

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LQCs: We told you so

Posted on Saturday 14 May 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Only time for a couple quick links. We told you so.

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LQCs: Sincerity, Norway, the Moral Arc

Posted on Thursday 12 May 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

OnlySky, Hemant Mehta, 7 May 2022: The Supreme Court should stop taking religious beliefs so seriously, subtitled, “Not every ‘sincerely held religious belief’ is sincerely held. The Supreme Court should admit that.”

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LQCs: KSR; Conservative History

Posted on Wednesday 11 May 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

NYT, Alexandra Alter, 11 May 2022: A Sci-Fi Writer Returns to Earth: ‘The Real Story is the One Facing Us.’, subtitled: “Kim Stanley Robinson, one of the most acclaimed living science fiction writers, is done with deep space narratives. His … Continue reading →

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LQCs: The Arc of Historical Progress vs. Religious Oppression in the US

Posted on Tuesday 10 May 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

First, my favorite print magazine The Week, for May 13th, in its “Viewpoint” box on the “Best Columns US” page, quotes Francis Fukuyama in The Wall Street Journal (a newspaper I don’t read). But unlike the similarly found David French … Continue reading →

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LQCs: Wise Women and Men, How the Law Is Flimsy against Political Tides, and Why Conservatives Are So Anxious to Oppress Others

Posted on Monday 9 May 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Several Fb friends have quoted this passage by the great Ursula K. Le Guin, originally posted at Reading Is Therapy, from her 1989 book Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places.

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Endless Polarization, Ideology, and What MAGA Means

Posted on Sunday 8 May 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

David French on polarization; the inevitability of endless political arguments; how MAGA is about white Christian men.

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LQCs: Whose Religious Freedom?

Posted on Saturday 7 May 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Today’s San Francisco Chronicle has this opinion piece about religious freedom. San Francisco Chronicle, Daniel Bogard and Tana Senn, 6 May 2022: Supreme Court’s Roe ruling would trample the religious freedom of every Jewish American

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