Ask Nathan Anything: Quarantine Edition

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1. Favorite Anglican philosopher?

2. Favorite Catholic philosopher?

3. Favorite secular philosopher?

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What have you changed your view on that you wouldn’t have expected to change your view?

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A take of mine is that Bernie Sanders had a better campaign in 2016 than this time around in part because he wasn't a household name outside of Vermont - he's famous there for meeting with and helping constituents, with ordinary people: including small business owners, farmers, workers, all of the people from his days in Burlington.

He understood his own state and local conditions there, he knew everyone and they knew him, he was deeply rooted there (as opposed to a bunch of Brooklyn cargo cult left activists and Online types who latched on to him, especially post-2016).

What do you think? If you anything to add, I'd love to read it.

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Favorite Gulf monarchy.

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Utterly shameless copying of my most recent questions for Cath in his AMA thread.


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1. What, in your view, is the most underappreciated issue that affects countries throughout post-Soviet Central Asia?

2. How do you interpret the rise of politicized conservative-to-fundamentalist religion throughout much of the world since, say, the 1970s? I have my own interpretation, and it is very much related to the decline and eventual disintegration of the USSR, but I think it played out differently in different countries and on different continents - even though there are some eerie parallels (but not exact duplicates, of course).

3. Where do you see the Catholic Church by 2030? Interpret this question as you wish.

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why mainline Protestant so lame

at least Catholic have tradition and evangelical have rock music

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why mainline Protestant so lame

at least Catholic have tradition and evangelical have rock music

Mainline Protestantism isn't lame at all, it's just not Red Tribe or Blue Tribe enough to fare well the Great Sort. That in itself is all the more reason to be mainline Protestant in my opinion.

This is why you're one of my favs here.

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opinion of Sufism?

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opinion of conservative Protestants who convert to Catholicism because of politics and intellectual respectability (will an evangelical be put on the Supreme Court? probably not anytime soon).

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Opinion of this article.

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Is Phil Scott really a Nice Guy FF moderate New England Republican?

Because if so, it's a damn shame that there aren't more (any?) Republicans like him at the national level.