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James M. Patterson

@McGillPatterson

5 months

It's never too late to be normal.

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James M. Patterson

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4 months

Type of Baptist who calls it “Remembrance, not Sacramento”

Fr. Paul

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4 months

type of atheist who just says "the City of Paul, Minnesota"

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James M. Patterson

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@GravitysRa1nbow They accomplished this with Special Forces armored trucks with only heavy machine guns and two Apache helicopters that showed up at the end.

Special Forces Soldiers Reveal First Details of Battle With Russian Mercenaries in Syria

This battle became one of the rare occasions American and Russian combatants exchanged fire—one of the deadliest battles the Americans had faced in Syria.

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James M. Patterson

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First Things

@firstthingsmag

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There was no genocide in the New World. Genocide requires intent, and there is no upside in intentionally murdering millions of new productive, tax-paying subjects.

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James M. Patterson

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1 year

Adrian Vermeule hardest hit.

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@teslaownersSV Block is going to be deleted as a “feature”, except for DMs

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James M. Patterson

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@MatthewSitman Can you blame them for wanting to keep their car service? You know what DC is like.

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James M. Patterson

@McGillPatterson

4 months

My wife and I at the UVA protests against massive department closures and moving most curriculum online. This was the first day of our honeymoon. And those signs were double-sided, were photographed by the press, and are now in the UVA archives!

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James M. Patterson

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3 months

So, Deneen is trying to change the subject because he cannot defend what he did by recommending three thinkers whose critiques of liberalism relied on commitments that the Church rightly condemns. Does he think I won't notice? Or that you won't?

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James M. Patterson

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1 year

@byPeterParadise @paulrbrian When I lived in Houston, driving for 3 hours was a normal thing to do. Not sure if that says more about Houston or the UK, though.

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James M. Patterson

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1 year

So @avemariauniv has released some short courses by the faculty, including one by me on Ven. +Fulton J. Sheen on politics, economics, and culture. I forgot to tip the production team, so they used the least flattering picture of me. Or else that’s just what I look like now.

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James M. Patterson

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1 year

If I were the Federalist Society or associated with Ron DeSantis, I would avoid being associated with Adrian.

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James M. Patterson

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4 months

Hasn't fifty years of Rawls been too many already?

Ben Gross 🔆

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You guys have no idea how popular John Rawls is about to become

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James M. Patterson

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1 year

I explain to my students every semester that our nation is run by 20-30 year old staffers and clerk from about ten or twelve colleges. They don’t believe me, and then when some of them move DC, I get that same message—“You were right.”

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼

@Noahpinion

1 year

Our legislators are finally getting so old that people might actually start to ask who is actually running the country. (The answer is that it's a bunch of 30-year-old Hill staffers who work for the legislators.)

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James M. Patterson

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Catholic Integralism is a tradition of thought that, rejecting the liberal separation of politics from concern with the end of human life, holds that political rule must order man to his final goal. Since, however, man has both a temporal and an eternal end, integralism holds tha

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1 year

What is he saying?

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James M. Patterson

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4 months

I really liked Kevin's article, which should surprise no one. A few things I'd like to mention. Neo-integralism no longer is the subject of essays because, well, we know what it is and its advocates have moved into another stage of promoting it, namely seizing institutions.

Kevin Vallier

@kvallier

4 months

American integralism has collapsed. Today, @thedispatch , I explain why this happened and what mainline conservatives can learn from it.

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James M. Patterson

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3 months

Look, it’s fine to disagree with me, but I am allowed to express my misgivings about the content of the clip. That is how this app works.

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James M. Patterson

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4 months

As a postscript to the most recent academic fracas, I wanted to mention that the shift from “scholar” to “academic” during the end of the 20th century was a disaster. Not a big Heidegger fan, but he was right about this:

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James M. Patterson

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2 months

It’s important to understand the profound difference between Catholicism (op) and its demonic imitation Maurrassime (reply).

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James M. Patterson

@McGillPatterson

1 year

Me, watching Indians Jones punch Nazis, “Who do I root for? Why? Did I miss some backstory?”

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...holy shit.

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James M. Patterson

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APSA has failed because it has succeeded, having drawn down all the pre-APSA culture on which it depended. We must now imagine a Post-APSA Order, one dedicated to the Highest Good of P > 0.05

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James M. Patterson

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1 year

Excellent write-up of WVU. Confirms much of what I said the other day. Best parts:

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James M. Patterson

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5 months

@PhilipDBunn Another problem with the detectors is the false positives from students using Grammarly.

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James M. Patterson

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Just fixed my lawnmower by myself.

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James M. Patterson

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James M. Patterson

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1 year

Hungary and Russia are not religious countries. They just aren’t.

TheBlaze

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1 year

Tucker: "They hate Hungary because it's a Christian country. Nobody wants to say it, but it's true. That is enough to incite our policymakers in the United States and that is exactly why they hate Russia, by the way."

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James M. Patterson

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Sheesh that note

Oren Cass

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7 days

Replace "trade" with "budget" and ask yourself if this still sounds wise. It's not any wiser this way...

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James M. Patterson

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You don't have to love these people, but you can't deny they look cool.

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James M. Patterson

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1 year

I am surprised that NatCons would turn down the textbook definition of industrial policy—even mock it—in favor of Russia expanding its sphere of influence over n Europe. The implication is that Russian interests are more important than those of US workers!

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James M. Patterson

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1 year

What drink does the cat order?

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James M. Patterson

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1 year

They did the first time.

The Hellenist ☀️

@The_Hellenist

1 year

What if instead of forcing our children to become Christians, we let them choose which gods to worship. Does anyone honestly think they would choose Jesus?

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James M. Patterson

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2 months

Postliberals don’t know who to vote for now.

Zichen Wang

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Based on open sources, Tim Walz, the potential next Vice President of the United States, taught English for a year in China, spent his honeymoon in China, ran a business that took students to China, and traveled to China every year until 2003, & speaks a bit Chinese. SHORT THREAD

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James M. Patterson

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@hemingquay Covfefe

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James M. Patterson

@McGillPatterson

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This is my funniest joke.

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James M. Patterson

@McGillPatterson

1 year

Many are asking me, “James, how did you meet your weight loss goal even while on vacation with your family?” Easy! Norovirus.

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James M. Patterson

@McGillPatterson

1 year

We are so back.

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James M. Patterson

@McGillPatterson

1 year

Another outstanding essay by @StMichael71 . For those interested in comparative political theory, read to the end, in which Fr. Rooney discusses Christian and Confucian political thought. Truly some of the most original stuff I’ve read.

What the State Cannot Do – James Dominic Rooney

Government has a legitimate role in preserving peace, but it cannot make men virtuous.

lawliberty.org

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James M. Patterson

@McGillPatterson

1 year

Writing night

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James M. Patterson

@McGillPatterson

1 year

I think APSA would have survived if it hadn’t focused so much on political theory and historical methods and instead pushed for more quantitative work, especially in fields where one uses proxy measures that conform to one’s unexamined biases.

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James M. Patterson

@McGillPatterson

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I could have sworn there were words on that paper that signified consent to the rules above those signatures!

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James M. Patterson

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1 year

It’s happening

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