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S. P. Cooper 🍋

@Prof_Cooper

Ph.D., FRSA. Arthuriana, chivalry, kingship. Now: Pres. @CourtlyLitNA, Host @CritReadings, Senior Editor @EuroConMag. Formerly: @MadisonProgram @Princeton.

Michigan Katılım Eylül 2012
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eburke@JamesWHankins1·
This is a long standing dogma of multiculturalism. I was eliminated from a fellowship application while still an undergraduate when I remarked at an interview that Ancient Greek was a more powerful and expressive language than modern made-up languages like Esperanto. I thought it an obvious point but it was seen as racist. I’m still not sure how that conclusion was reached
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@CultureExploreX @JamesWHankins1 I also don’t understand why people don’t understand that cultures can be better than others…that isn’t something rude or negative, simply factual. Modern British culture is clearly better than 11th century English culture…which in turn is similar to some modern ones.

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Thomas Mirus@CatholicPods·
MY NEW PODCAST JUST LAUNCHED! The history of the popes of the Catholic Church—their lives, teachings, policies, and the crises they faced—told in a continuous chronological narrative, from St. Peter on through successors famous or obscure. The first three episodes are now available. Links below.
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S. P. Cooper 🍋@Prof_Cooper·
Spending these last hours before bed in the company of Milton, much improved by the presence of a dear friend's Goethe-inspired overture.
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Joshua D Phillips
Joshua D Phillips@JoshPhillipsPhD·
You've been given an incredible world full of Shakespeare, Mozart, Dante, da Vinci, Bach, Dickens, Austen, Twain, Michelangelo, Cervantes... Don't squander your inheritance. Enjoy it!
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Emma Trimble@Emma_A_Webb·
Saint Cuthbert, who appeared to King Alfred in a dream when all seemed lost, pray for us.
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Oliver Traldi@olivertraldi·
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Oliver Traldi@olivertraldi·
My wokest opinion is that people shouldn't make big cakes that look like their pets and then cut into them while their pets are watching
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Simen@pronouncedsimon·
Relatively common phenomenon nowadays: historical figure gets reinterpreted as a symbol of the 'pre-multicultural' past (when 'dead, white men' ruled); is thence treated with some anxiety as a potential threat to the multicultural present; nativists then embrace these symbols as totems, and the whole thing spirals (it can also begin in reverse order). Meanwhile ordinary people are left scratching their head at the idiocy all around
Culture Explorer@CultureExploreX

You do not honor other cultures by weakening your own. You honor them by standing firmly in what is yours. Shakespeare is not a symbol of domination. He is one of the clearest expressions of what human language can reach at its highest level. His work survived because generation after generation, across cultures, found truth in it. What they are calling decolonising is diluting something rooted, tested, and refined over centuries. This is what happens when a civilization loses confidence in its own inheritance. The idea that Shakespeare being universal is harmful reveals something deeper. It suggests that greatness itself has become suspect. That if something endures across time and place, it must be explained away, not studied. That instinct erases standards. Tradition is not exclusion. It is memory. It is the record of what a civilization discovered was worth preserving. Once you start apologizing for that, you create a vacuum where nothing holds. A culture that cannot defend Shakespeare will not be able to defend anything else that made it.

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Rob@RobMorr61422837·
To all my prayer warriors. Please pray for my first baby granddaughter Maeve…. She’s having some complications and means the world to me…. She’s a blessing from god. 🙏🙏
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Robert P. George@McCormickProf·
Predictably, alas, Archbishop Alexander Sample's powerful reassertion of the Church's condemnation of antisemitism and conspiracy theorizing against the Jewish people has brought the antisemites out from under the rocks. Some claim to be faithful Catholics. They're no such thing.
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Julian Dutton@JulianDutton1·
These things excite me. My copy of Leon Uris' novel Exodus, found in a dusty old vintage bookshop in the heart of Wales, I discover has journeyed all the way from an old bookstore in the heart of Jerusalem. The shop Sefer Ve Sefel is still there. Am Yisrael Chai. עם ישראל חי.
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William Clouston SDP@WilliamClouston·
For progressives, a collision with brutal reality in the world they created…
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Alan Cornett@alancornett·
After seeing the British and German tourists in Spain I don’t want to see any more posts from Europeans about how Americans should dress.
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Capel Lofft@CapelLofft·
Too much time on Twitter, getting drawn into pointless, time-wasting arguments. I am going to take a break from here for the rest of Lent. See you all after Holy Week
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Edward Feser
Edward Feser@FeserEdward·
This psychotic, who has quite a large following on Twitter, trashes Denmark for preparing to defend itself from threatened U.S. aggression and then being unwilling to join us in a poorly thought out war that is against its own interests. This is not a rational mind. It is no less insane than woke left-wingers who go on about trans women being women, defunding the police, and other such madness. Of course, there is nothing special about this particular fool; there are innumerably many like him. And that’s the point. An enormous part of the population, across the political spectrum, lives in unreality. This is not sustainable. We are in deep trouble.
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@ChrisO_wiki LOL, they're willing to take us on but unwilling to take on Iran? I'm not sure we need those kind of "Allies".

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