De Civitate

I Am Apparently The Only Person Willing To Tell You What's Actually Wrong With This Play

Short Review | "Rollicking! A Winter Carnival Musical" at the Minnesota History Theatre

Dec 9 • James J. Heaney

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Two Amendments on the Senate

Some Constitutional Amendments: Let's try this again, from the top.

Dec 2 • James J. Heaney

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November 2025

I've Got Plenty To Be Thankful For

State-of-the-Blog on Our 4th Substackiversary (Plus: an AI Reassurance)

Nov 29 • James J. Heaney

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Worthy Reads: Prepping Your Phone for the Thanksgiving Postprandial Doomscroll

Worthy Reads for November 2025

Nov 20 • James J. Heaney

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Fixing the Senate, Part III: Your Correspondent Replies to Every Single Commenter

"Highlights from the Comments"? BAH! Lame! Let's spend several weeks of writing time answering them ALL!

Nov 10 • James J. Heaney

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October 2025

Faithful Wounds

Reviews | Tolkien at Open Window Theatre

Oct 27 • James J. Heaney

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Read Banned Books!

If you can't beat 'em...

Oct 8 • James J. Heaney

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The Council of Constance Considered as Unfair Final Exam Question

Originalism comes for the Catholics

Oct 2 • James J. Heaney

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Translations: The End of the Council of Constance and "Moyses Vir Dei"

Some Translations of Church Documents, #6: A Translation BOGO

Oct 2 • James J. Heaney

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September 2025

Worthy Reads: All Fun and Games

A double-length Worthy Reads for September 2025

Sep 18 • James J. Heaney

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Is Charlie Kirk At Fault In His Own Murder?

Betteridge's Law of Headlines and speaking ill of the dead

Sep 13 • James J. Heaney

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One Reason to Punch Nazis (and Two Reasons Not To)

Reposted from 6 August 2019

Sep 11 • James J. Heaney

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