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	<title>First Word</title>
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	<description>How can you have the last word if you haven't heard the first?</description>
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		<title>N. T. Wright on the Resurrection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The thesis is that the &#8220;Easter belief&#8221; of the early Christians (a) refers intentionally to a literal, physical (not merely spiritual) raising of Jesus from the dead, and (b) the mode and breadth of this belief can only be explained on the hypothesis that that is what actually happened. The thesis is pursued in specific [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://butler-harris.org/archives/355</link>
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		<title>The Pastor of Buchenwald with Parallels</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This book (see biblio info at end) is a nice companion to the Wentorf biography of this dear German Reformed pastor who died in Buchenwald. It includes a number of letters from Pastor Schneider stitched together with significant background material by his widow. Not as detailed as Wentorf, it rounds out the picture with womanly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://butler-harris.org/archives/354</link>
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		<title>Movie. Matewan, 1987. (HIx: 1)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This movie is based on an actual incident in Matewan, West Virginia that was part of the Coal Mine Wars of 1920-21. The &#8220;wars&#8221; were a series of struggles between the company, owned by distant and anonymous capitalists, and the local men that worked in the mines. The detailed history of how things reached the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://butler-harris.org/archives/353</link>
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		<title>Frege&#8217;s Sinn und Bedeutung: first third</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This essay by Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) was published in 1892 in the journal Zeitschrift für Philosophie und philosophische Kritik, pp. 25-50. Dealing with the &#8220;philosophy of language,&#8221; it discusses the distinction that should be made between the sense and reference (hence: the title of the essay) of linguistic expressions.
It will be helpful to have the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://butler-harris.org/archives/352</link>
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		<title>The Slovak people: original settlement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This report is based on a &#8220;target of opportunity&#8221; &#8212; an old beat up book from a co-worker; though held together with masking tape and rubber bands, it is something of an heirloom. It was evidently intended as a handy grammar and dictionary and song book for Slovakians emigrating to the USA. Though the title [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://butler-harris.org/archives/351</link>
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		<title>Night and Fog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is an important documentary for two reasons: it is one of the first &#8220;holocaust&#8221; documentaries ever made (1955 or 1956), and several of the images (whether created by picture or word) have proven quite durable. It is also blessedly short, coming in at just over a half-hour. For these reasons, it should be seen [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://butler-harris.org/archives/350</link>
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		<title>Discussion of Wagner&#8217;s Ring: Rheingold</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While only a few people will be interested in our philosophical podcasts, I hope many will give the operatic ones a try. Here, we discuss Rheingold, the first of the quartet constituting Richard Wagner&#8217;s Ring cycle. The first two are MB&#8217;s synopsis, which is the most masterful summation I have ever heard. (Note: the background music is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://butler-harris.org/archives/349</link>
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		<title>Ben-Expelled</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the documentary called Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, the droll Ben Stein flies to all the corners of Christendom to find out why Darwinists have a death-lock on university employment, and why even the most tentative and open-ended questioning of the regnant paradigm leads to termination of employment and black-listing. A number of victims tell their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://butler-harris.org/archives/348</link>
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		<title>Alan Keyes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At its national convention Saturday April 26 in Kansas City, the Constitution Party avoided permanent disaster by declining to nominate Alan Keyes for its Presidential candidate.
Losing this was a serious blow to Keyes, who left the Republican Party a couple weeks earlier, evidently with an eye on just this prize. His bitter colloquy to supporters [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://butler-harris.org/archives/346</link>
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		<title>Kelso&#8217;s Gedankenexperiment: Two Visions of the Conservative Foundation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are basically two different models of conservatism, and there is an unbridgeable chasm between them. One vision starts with the people that constitutes the nation, regardless of its current Constitution. The other starts with the Constitution, and it is a matter of comparative indifference what people happen to live under it.
To understand what is [...]]]></description>
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