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Good Rituals

Summer is finally here, in the technical sense. I inaugurated the season last weekend by working on Saturday, then spending all day Sunday at the first iteration of Fernstock, serving as the emcee and one of the judges. And while I have plenty of experience with the former, I have a different experience with the […]

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Hootin’ and Hollerin’

At the end of the preface to Hegel’s difficult but rewarding work Elements of the Philosophy of Right, the philosopher evokes the image of Minerva (in Greece, Athena) the goddess of wisdom and justice. Minerva’s wise owl, we are told, only takes flight with the coming of the night. This means we can only grasp […]

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