Solidarity & zero-sum power

How taking power makes us powerless

9 hrs ago • Bryce Tolpen

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August 2026

The wounded organizer

Jason Williams on how a community helped heal its organizer

Aug 19 • Bryce Tolpen

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An epistemology of naming

And why we love when young kids get the words wrong

Aug 11 • Bryce Tolpen

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July 2026

Katie Couric's copying me

My life as a grounded—or mulched—southern cosmopolite

Jul 28 • Bryce Tolpen

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Meeting the public's demands

How common sense and mediation address ideology

Jul 21 • Bryce Tolpen

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Jesus' speck & plank as perspective

A dialog honoring David Hockney, 1937-2026

Jul 14 • Bryce Tolpen

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Lincoln's "merely revolutionary" Declaration

How Kafka's parables can pull us back from our Kafkaesque politics

Jul 1 • Bryce Tolpen

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June 2026

What to the Gentile is Pentecost?

Acts helps us understand Frederick Douglass's July 4th dilemma

Jun 16 • Bryce Tolpen

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Yes, but can it preach?

Tailoring my voting rights article for my Southern Black church

Jun 9 • Bryce Tolpen

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26:59

Liberty and germ theory

While seeking liberty, the Founders found freedom

Jun 3 • Bryce Tolpen

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May 2026

Galatians & the Voting Rights Act

Paul teaches the Supreme Court about balancing—and honoring—covenants

May 22 • Bryce Tolpen

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A half-hearted appeal to heaven

The American Revolution still lives out Locke's self-contradiction

May 7 • Bryce Tolpen

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