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		<title>American Barabbas</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2025 05:45:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Depicted in the four Gospels—Matthew 27, Mark 15, Luke 23, John 19—are scenes of Jesus’ trial before Pilate. In all these depictions, the crowd yells for the insurrectionist Barabbas to be freed and for Jesus to be killed. There is no exact parallel in contemporary American politics. Jesus was not a candidate for public office. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Divine Land Grants</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jul 2024 04:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
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	&#160; Imagined painting by Frans Pourbus the Elder (c. 1565–80) depicting the Israelite’s God showing Moses the Promised Land. Photograph Source: Sailko – CC BY 3.0 When Moses the servant of Yahweh was dead, Yahweh spoke to Joshua son of Nun, Moses adjutant. He said, “Moses my servant is dead; rise—it is time—and cross the Jordan [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Kingdom, Power, and Glory Book Club Review</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[The public establishment of Christianity may be considered as one of the most important and domestic revolutions which excite the most lively curiosity, and afford the most valuable instruction. The victories and the civil policy of Constantine no longer influence the state of Europe; but a considerable portion of the globe still retains the impression [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Commonwealth Spirituality</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Aug 2023 04:45:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Here in northern Wisconsin, on Tuesday night, August 15, 2023, the Lincoln County Board of Supervisors defeated, by a vote of 13-9, a resolution calling for a county-wide referendum on the funding of the county-owned nursing home, Pine Crest. Over one hundred people—many of them elderly, some in wheelchairs—were in attendance in the big room [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Jefferson Project: Thomas Jefferson’s Death Day and a Fourth of July Remembrance</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jul 2023 04:45:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Back in the mid-1980s, an outfit called Anvil Press published a book of mine. Its title was—still is—Nature’s Unruly Mob: Farming and the Crisis in Rural Culture. The topic (or its urgency) hasn’t gone away. Anvil Press printed the book as a special issue of its occasional quarterly magazine, North Country Anvil. The magazine was [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Abandonment and the Gerrymandering of Resentment</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jun 2023 04:45:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Anyone who’s paid attention knows that Wisconsin is a tightly gerrymandered state. The geopolitical scrabble of electoral districts enables the Republican Party to hold large majorities in both the Assembly and the Senate. Those majorities come from districts far more rural than urban. They’re also rather working class in cultural disposition. There is a racial [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Address of an Uninvited Keynote Speaker</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2023 04:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I wrote the following in one fell swoop after receiving a call from a young friend. He was relaying a tentative invitation—or the possibility of a tentative invitation—that immediately excited me into eight hand-written pages without a pee break. That was quite an accomplishment for an old man. Well, the possible tentative invitation fell through. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Shameless</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Mar 2023 04:45:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A peculiar thing about gerrymandering is its shamelessness. Its shamelessness is underrecognized and underappreciated in the sense of refusing to see itself for what it is, how proud it is of its morality. Its very morality exudes shamelessness. But how did shamelessness get to be so moral? Gerrymandering is inherently undemocratic. It stacks the electoral [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Review of Curt Meine’s Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work on the Occasion of Aldo Leopold’s 136th Birthday</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2023 05:45:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One could tick off details about Aldo Leopold’s life—born January 11, 1887, in Burlington, Iowa; educated as a forester at Yale; worked for the U.S. Forest Service in New Mexico and Arizona for roughly two decades; married Estella Bergere in October of 1912; accepted an appointment to the Forest Products Laboratory in Madison, Wisconsin, in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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