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Matthew LoftusCultureHistoryEthics

"gifts of time, money, and sympathy" - Doctors Without Boredom

If you’ve never read this essay on W.H. Auden’s quiet benefience, you’re in for a real treat: W.H. Auden had a secret life that his closest friends knew little or nothing about. Everything about it was generous and honorable. He […]

Matthew LoftusCultureHistoryEthics

"gifts of time, money, and sympathy" - Doctors Without Boredom

If you’ve never read this essay on W.H. Auden’s quiet benefience, you’re in for a real treat: W.H. Auden had a secret life that his closest friends knew little or nothing about. Everything about it was generous and honorable. He […]

Matthew LoftusFamilyCultureHistoryCriminal Justice

murder, policing, and justice - Doctors Without Boredom

This well-reported story about TJ Smith, the Baltimore Police Department’s former spokesman who lost his half-brother to violence in the city (and just resigned!), is well worth reading and reflecting on: As for Smith, his failed struggle to lead Dionay […]

Matthew LoftusFamilyCultureHistoryCriminal Justice

murder, policing, and justice - Doctors Without Boredom

This well-reported story about TJ Smith, the Baltimore Police Department’s former spokesman who lost his half-brother to violence in the city (and just resigned!), is well worth reading and reflecting on: As for Smith, his failed struggle to lead Dionay […]

Matthew LoftusCultureHistoryEconomicsHealth & Medicine

"Nothing can take form except within limits." - Doctors Without Boredom

Wendell Berry summarizes many of our contemporary problems quite well in this excellent interview with Gracy Olmstead: Those problems could be summed up as the triumph of industrialism and industrial values over the lives of living creatures, and over the […]

Matthew LoftusCultureHistoryEconomicsHealth & Medicine

"Nothing can take form except within limits." - Doctors Without Boredom

Wendell Berry summarizes many of our contemporary problems quite well in this excellent interview with Gracy Olmstead: Those problems could be summed up as the triumph of industrialism and industrial values over the lives of living creatures, and over the […]

Matthew LoftusCultureHistoryEthics

social justice, evangelicalism, and history - Doctors Without Boredom

I tried not to follow the brouhaha over the Statement on Social Justice and the Gospel too closely — too much to keep up with when I felt like the original statement was a whole lot of shadowboxing and thus […]

Matthew LoftusCultureHistoryEthics

social justice, evangelicalism, and history - Doctors Without Boredom

I tried not to follow the brouhaha over the Statement on Social Justice and the Gospel too closely — too much to keep up with when I felt like the original statement was a whole lot of shadowboxing and thus […]

Matthew LoftusCultureHistoryEconomicsEducation

"has anyone asked working-class families if being sucked into a frantically achievement-obsessed rat race is a benefaction they are interested in?" - Doctors Without Boredom

This essay from Helen Andrews is just too enjoyable not to share: Does Currid-Halkett have anything bad to say about the new elite? She has just one complaint, which she repeats again and again whenever she senses that she is sounding too […]

Matthew LoftusCultureHistoryEconomicsEducation

"has anyone asked working-class families if being sucked into a frantically achievement-obsessed rat race is a benefaction they are interested in?" - Doctors Without Boredom

This essay from Helen Andrews is just too enjoyable not to share: Does Currid-Halkett have anything bad to say about the new elite? She has just one complaint, which she repeats again and again whenever she senses that she is sounding too […]

Matthew LoftusCultureHistory

could a Christian political party be... good? - Doctors Without Boredom

Bryan McGraw delivers a great history lesson about Christian political parties in Europe and the promise such a party might hold for us in America. I’d love to see him discuss the American Solidarity Party in a follow-up, since that’s the […]

Matthew LoftusCultureHistory

could a Christian political party be... good? - Doctors Without Boredom

Bryan McGraw delivers a great history lesson about Christian political parties in Europe and the promise such a party might hold for us in America. I’d love to see him discuss the American Solidarity Party in a follow-up, since that’s the […]