Two things I read this morning:

Karl Jaspers in 1930:

The old antitheses—the contrasted outlooks known respectively as individualism and socialism, liberal and conservative, revolutionary and reactionary, progressive and reversionary, materialistic and idealistic—are no longer valid, although they are still universally flaunted as banners or used as invectives.

Paul Kingsnorth in 2025 (paraphrasing):

If I’m right, then the “culture war” has been little more than two bald men fighting over a comb.

Mr. deBoer needs Hauerwas Jesus.

Eight years ago today, I was asked to give a speech on the topic of truth at the University of Maine. I had just returned from a field hospital in Iraq after the liberation of Mosul and I had one clear thing to say. If I was given that task again today, I think I would say the exact same thing.

Expediting the process

Life alone, life given, not exacted from others, can save a [person’s] life.

    —André Trocmé

Karl, James, and Karl

Jack: 0
Skunks: 2