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It's publishing week for my first book, 'Kierkegaard's Ontology.' If you'd be so kind, please ask your library to order a copy. If you'd be even kinder, consider buying or reviewing a copy:
bloomsbury.com/us/kierkegaard…
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Casey Spinks
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Casey Spinks
@CaseySpinks
Gulf Coast Kierkegaardian | Postdoc @UTAustin | PhD @Baylor | MA, BA @LSU | Contributing Editor @FrontPorchRepub
Austin, TX Katılım Temmuz 2024
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@MatthewSitman I taught this Niebuhr essay in my Politics and Transcendent class this semester!
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Another notable essay on the Tower of Babel is Reinhold Niebuhr's in his collection Beyond Tragedy. And yes, in a past life I wrote a long-ish paper comparing Niebuhr and Oakeshott's treatments of the Babel myth ("Politics after Babel") if anyone wants to read it
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Side note for KYE nerds: Michael Oakeshott wrote not one but two essay on the Tower of Babel, unsurprising given his emphasis on the perils of "rationalism" (one of the Babel essays is in the Rationalism and Politics collection, the other in the On History volume)
Pope Leo XIV@Pontifex
Humanity, created by God in all its grandeur, is today facing a pivotal choice: either to construct a new Tower of Babel or to build the city in which God and humanity dwell together. In Jesus Christ, this humanity in its grandeur becomes the Way, the Truth and the Life, opening the path for each of us to grow toward fullness. #MagnificaHumanitas vatican.va/content/leo-xi…
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This is why you people should still read Heidegger, Schmitt, Jünger. It seems Eberhard Jüngel is the only theologian who's learned this semantic lesson that's much more than just a semantic lesson.
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Alas, the unfortunate continuation of "supreme value" and "profound value" language, right where it's trying to speak of "ontological dignity." Any time one uses "value," one is assuming the ontology of the will-to-power. Most often, unknowingly.
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This past winter, I read the Lord of the Rings trilogy for the first time, and I was struck most by what a wise political thinker Tolkien was through his storytelling.
Courtney Mares@catholicourtney
In his first encyclical, Pope Leo XIV quotes J.R.R. Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.” “It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.” (Photo: Vatican Media)
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@aaron_renn The two Ringer critics who attended the screening thought it was much more critical of Norway, according to how they described it on their podcast.
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The NPR coverage of this is extremely vague and seems designed to leave the reader with the impression that this was an "anti-fundamentalist" film: npr.org/2026/05/23/nx-…
Aaron M. Renn 🇺🇸@aaron_renn
The Palme d'Or at Cannes was apparently a film about an immigrant evangelical Christian family whose kids are seized by child protective services. Very interesting. nytimes.com/2026/05/23/mov…
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@fxxfy Future site of the inaugural American Existential Natural Philosophers Conference
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The “Southern Cavalier vs. New England Puritan” is a ridiculous fiction hindering genuine American agrarian goals. Vermont is more agrarian than any southern state. Henry Adams & Robert Frost were as traditional as Faulkner. Will Percy entertained Langston Hughes at his home.
Belle II@Lorelei1861
“The Southern tradition is squarely at odds with the Puritan or Northern tradition. The Puritan puts evil in the object---whiskey, a gun, a bad environment, etc.---rather than in the human heart. Once evil is projected into the object, the Puritan is able to justify to himself his right to attack and reform others in the name of his own sanctity. This reduces to a disguised form of a will to power. What the Puritan wants is not salvation but power. He is, in the final analysis, a minion of the Devil.”
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Last night I watched “Stewart Udall: The Politics of Beauty.” I’ve been thinking a lot about him lately. I keep hoping a Udall for our time might emerge.
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Bloomsbury sale has ‘Kierkegaard’s Ontology’ for only(*) $80 instead of the usual $115.
bloomsbury.com/us/kierkegaard…
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The local NPR meditation moment is doing a bit on Reinhold Niebuhr.
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Last week, in the span of two days, I saw Robert Earl Keen and Willie Nelson play live. It felt like an appropriate farewell to Texas.
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If you're a retiring professor in Oxford, Ohio or someone with a house that looks like a professor would live in it, and you're looking to move, let me know.
Tangentially, I didn't know how many mid-century modern houses there are in the rural midwest.
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@CaseySpinks I use the Folger Library edition. It is expensive (I bought it with a book allowance given when I was ordained in the late 1990s) but a very fine edition.
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"... the use and benefite of good lawes, all that live under them may enjoy with delight and comfort, albeit the groundes and first originall causes from whence they sprong be unknown, as to the greatest part of men they are."
LEP I.1.2
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@NadyaWilliams81 @yalepress @ProvMagazine We're all either Taoists or Confucians. Glad to see a civic defense of the Taoist!
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David Bentley Hart has a new translation of the Tao Te Ching out with @yalepress. My review today @ProvMagazine! In a nutshell, "This is a beautiful vision for civic education in this age of moral failures and degradation that we can see all around." providencemag.com/2026/05/the-wa…
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My essay, to which the above responded:
fusionaier.org/2026/americas-…
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Thank you to @jamesrwoodtheo for this excellent response to ‘Finding the Founding.’
fusionaier.org/2026/the-commu…
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@jamesrwoodtheo It was just what I was looking for: to my mind, the best contribution a Protestant postliberal would offer.
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this was probably more than @CaseySpinks was looking for, but I was genuinely inspired by his series, and the last installment in particular
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@cath_cov Your mind would change if you consider Andreas Rudelbach and the fact that he was one of few who remained friends with Kierkegaard to the end.
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