r.r. reno – De Civitate https://ropersanchor.jamesjheaney.com "And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat?" Mon, 18 May 2020 20:17:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 A Covid Drama in Two Acts https://ropersanchor.jamesjheaney.com/2020/05/18/a-covid-drama-in-two-acts/ Mon, 18 May 2020 20:04:24 +0000 https://www.jamesjheaney.com/?p=2484 Continue reading →]]> Shot: R.R. Reno, “Phobos and Deimos,” First Things, June 2020.

Chaser: David A Graham, “The Class War Over Social Distancing,” The Atlantic, 15 May 2020.

This has been your occasional reminder — helpful to all of us, no doubt — to never completely buy into sweeping narratives about vast classes of people you don’t know without making a cursory effort to check whether the narrative bears any relationship to reality.

FULL DISCLOSURE: In Spring 2013, I applied for a job at First Things, which I did not get.

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