HeyJaredWright's Common Good Postliberal Substack
A Substack Exploring the Common Good Tradition and Contemporary Christian Life in the Liberal Orders
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After the Politics of the Hyperreal (opens the original)
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I first encountered the texts of Jean Baudrillard in the late 1980s. I devoured them. I remember my response: One has to work through pages and pages of drivel to find a sentence of great insight.I learned to speak the language of “post-Fordism”: simulacrum, image preceding production, the endless play of language, the interplay between panic and giddiness, and above all, the hyperreal.The faddishness of the academy had turned me to the endless repetition of the “new and improved.” <a class="ima
Culpability and the Murdering of Children (opens the original)
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I had never heard of Myra Hindley. I am an American, after all.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="640" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dJDV!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%
European Liberals Unsheathe their Knives (opens the original)
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Repressive European liberals have unsheathed their knives. <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1226" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8qj4!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2
Hungarian Gulag (opens the original)
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Irony. I find it funny — except when it’s not.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="607" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MmIT!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpubl
Enlightenment’s End(s) (opens the original)
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I made my way around the stairs slowly ascending toward the original Duke Humfrey’s Reading Room in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. My eyes widened in wonder at its beauty. Pictures do not do it justice.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="958" src="http
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