Nathan Robinson has "destroyed" the arguments of the right in a new book, but there's not a single aesthetic issue in the book (which, of course, is no surprise)

It’s not a surprise that Nathan Robinson regards conservatives as anti-intellectual even when conservatives are intellectuals.

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2022/11/why-conservative-intellectuals-are-anti-intellectual

Nor is it particularly surprising Robinson regards intellectual consensus as valuable while urging us to have a particular value for intellectual diversity (don’t give people with bad ideas tenured positions in education).

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/06/what-is-the-value-of-intellectual-diversity

That said, however briefly, it doesn’t seem Robinson has destroyed all of the right-wing arguments at once, his self-advertising of his book withstanding.

 

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2023/02/i-have-now-destroyed-all-of-the-right-wing-arguments-at-once

 

Go through all twenty-five of those arguments from the right that Robinson says he demolished and see if you can spot any realms of thought that are missing. To give the game away, no aesthetic issues are in that list of 25.

Michael Heiser has died, some thoughts on how Heiser's work has been used and how some of those uses have been parsed

Normally I'm loathe to ever link to either the Christian Post or Charisma but Phoenix Preacher noted the following at his latest Linkathon:

https://www.christianpost.com/news/michael-heiser-scholar-and-author-of-the-unseen-realm-dies.html
and Charisma has reported, too, that the Old Testament scholar Michael Heiser has died.

https://www.charismanews.com/culture/91562-renowned-old-testament-scholar-dr-michael-heiser-passes-away-after-cancer-battle

I heard of Heiser via two different sources.  First, Jim West
https://zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com/2015/09/12/the-unseen-realm/

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on Christian bloggers as would-be Figgistorians, James Alexander's contribution to a Brill monograph on J Neville Figgis accidentally nailed nearly the entire Anglo-American Christian blogosphere

I’m afraid that in order to make the point I intend to make that I have to open up with an extravagantly long quote from James Alexander in a book published by Brill (edited by Paul Avis) on the life and work of the Anglican historian and priest John Neville Figgis.  So, without further ado, here we go: