I get a thrill when a book scares me, when a book silences me with its language and precise method, and there was no omen that could have ever prepared me for This Glittering Republic by Quenton Baker. I love this book and I needed this book. It’s one of those poetry collections that make…

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by James Wallace Harris, Monday, May 8, 2017 Yesterday I wrote, “Are Republicans the Party of Darwin?” accusing conservatives of applying their understanding of Darwin’s observations on nature to justify the laws they were creating. Their laws always seem to back the strong against the weak. But I had a revelation in the middle of […]

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