100% it's not that they want to follow the Rule of Saint Benedict, they just think that modernity has become too permissive in very specific unsurprising ways.

One of TJs worst takes.

banning words while studying 1984, someone clearly didn't do the reading

Wow thought police over here /sarcasm

This is literally my goal of a class, but i've been told it would get less enrollment since the kids wouldn't have 2 separate APs on their transcript...

Even Jaffa's pro-Lincoln account emphasizes Douglas's indifference much more than his straight up racism. And yes, yes, context, yes, yes Lincoln says racist things too, but still. Douglas is doing much more than just democracy requires disinterested proceduralism.

...the earth, and during all that time, in all latitudes and climates, wherever he has wandered or been taken, he has been inferior to the race which he has there met. He belongs to an inferior race, and must always occupy an inferior position" (Ottawa Debate)

People like to harp on the passages where Lincoln acknowledges the differences between races, but give Douglas a free pass on "I believe it [the US] was made by white men, for the benefit of white men and their posterity for ever" and "For thousands of years the negro has been a raec upon the...

I just meant that just as its important to expand the canon beyond the classics bro reading lists its equally important to defend the classics from classics bros

And I would argue that their canon doesn't have to be read through a right wing lens either.

One’s identity as a consumer organizes one’s politics in part because the thicker social structures that once performed that role — unions, fraternal orgs, churches, etc. — have mostly faded away.

Truly impressive level of passive voice

truly monstrous

I mean based on the vibes of the performance and the album, I doubt it was their choice but yeah...

And as @ositanwanevu.com argued in his recent book - the size of districts was even intended to be anti-democratic in the only body that would be directly elected according to the framers.