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23 Apr, 4 tweets, 3 min read
Our new Friday Essay is about to drop!

It's another brilliant piece by @dmarusic.

Like other Friday Essays, it's for members only, so make sure to subscribe to get access: wisdomofcrowds.live/subscribe/
For those of you who are new to @WCrowdsLive, Damir and I alternate essays each week. These are meant to be "anti-opeds," more tentative and exploratory than what you'll see elsewhere. Here's one of our previous entries if you missed it: wisdomofcrowds.live/why-christiani…
Our inaugural Friday Essay came out last month, on "The Paradox of American Faith" by @dmarusic, which I still think is one of the best essays I've read in some time. wisdomofcrowds.live/american-faith/
You can find all four of our previous Friday Essays below. We're really excited about this series, so please consider supporting us if you like our writing (or if you'd rather hate-read our essays for sport)

wisdomofcrowds.live/friday_essays/

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21 Apr
My latest for @WCrowdsLive on the striking decline in national pride and to what extent we should be worried. The number of Democrats who say they are "extremely proud" to be American dropped from 65 percent in 2003 to 24 percent last year. 1/x

wisdomofcrowds.live/to-attack-the-…
Last week, Biden's ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said a number of things that were unusual for a senior official responsible for representing the US on the world stage. It is one thing to attack what we do; it is another thing to attack what America is. 2/x
What we're witnessing today is a precipitous drop on two important measures. I have written about religious decline elsewhere. But if that coincides (similarly along partisan lines) with a decline in national pride, then it becomes of even greater concern. 3/x
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20 Apr
Life and politics in Apostolica

jstor.org/stable/4021284… Image
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In Apostolica, can democratic majorities promulgate laws that produce injustice as long as they are not "excessively unjust"? Image
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17 Apr
Excited to share this with all of you. Our two-part conversation with @ggreenwald is out!

I hope you'll find it as fascinating as we did. We talk about Brazil, Trump, January 6, Chomsky, American exceptionalism, and why liberals don't like him

wisdomofcrowds.live/the-world-acco…
In Part 2, the conversation gets more personal, with @ggreenwald discussing if he considers himself a man of the left and whether he would have ever considered serving in a Bernie Sanders administration

wisdomofcrowds.live/the-world-acco…
One thing I push @ggreenwald on is whether the left has a blindspot when it comes to anti-American dictators and how he assesses America's bad behavior relative to China and Russia's. This was one of my favorite parts of the conversation. wisdomofcrowds.live/the-world-acco…
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16 Apr
My new Friday Essay is out at @WCrowdsLive:

Because America is an "ideological" nation, attacks on the founding, however well intentioned, are a worrying proposition. And now they are being normalized by senior officials. At what cost?

wisdomofcrowds.live/to-attack-the-…
The Friday Essay is a new series where @dmarusic and I alternate essays each week. This is our fourth installment. Last week, Damir wrote on American selfishness and it's well worth reading if you missed it

wisdomofcrowds.live/selfishness-am…
My first Friday Essay came out two weeks ago—on 'why Christianity failed,' which I really enjoyed writing. I offered up a somewhat different interpretation of what went wrong

wisdomofcrowds.live/why-christiani…
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14 Apr
This is a very good essay from @DouthatNYT on whether a religious awakening might come to pass among educated elites nytimes.com/2021/04/10/opi…
A few thoughts. Christianity's decline has been fueled by the desertion of the professional-managerial classes. By contrast, Islam's revival in the 1970s and 80s drew considerable strength from some of those same groups—engineers, doctors, technocrats, lawyers, and teachers
Over the course of the 20th century, Islamic thinkers consciously tried to refashion the religion as rigidly rationalist and anti-supernatural. Rashid Rida, one of the most influential Islamic revivalists of the 20th century, described Islam as the "religion of reason"
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8 Apr
I quite literally laughed out loud at this
A generation of Rachel Dolezals isn't the future we wanted, but it might be the future we get
I must have missed this classic of the genre
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