Nate Oman | February 21, 2009
This is probably unwise, but I am going to post a letter that I recently wrote to my brother-in-law about the proposed closing of Gitmo and the law of terrorism. I am putting it up here rather than at Co-op because it doesn’t make the sort of nods to the academic literature and the case [...]
Nate Oman | February 21, 2009
Mikero.com (whoever that is) has produced an image that manages to redeem at least some of the silly Obama-messianism for me.
I’m temped to go to CafePress and get the t-shirt.
Nate Oman | February 14, 2009
Having spent a fair amount of time over the last two days sitting in airplanes and airports, I had a chance to read a couple of big chunks of Daniel Howe’s What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848. When I mentioned to a friend of mine on the history faculty here that I [...]
Nate Oman | February 10, 2009
I enjoy reading poetry. This has not always been the case. I still remember one of the most traumatic experiences of my freshman year of college as a writing assignment in which I had to comment on a poem. A couple of years ago, however, I discovered that I had an ear for poetry. I [...]
Nate Oman | February 3, 2009
The most recent episode of The Office has got me thinking about Dwight Schrute. In it Michael accuses Dwight of being a “butt kisser” while Dwight cuts Michael as a hollow man who has “no friends, no family, and no land!” What are we to make of this exchange? Is Dwight in fact a butt [...]
Nate Oman | February 3, 2009
This post brings together the four-part series that I did on 1 Nephi 17 over at Times & Seasons. At some point, I would like to expand the ideas here into an article, and link them up to some issues in legal and philosophical interpretation using the work of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Robert Cover. For now, however, [...]
Nate Oman | February 2, 2009
This is my favorite image from the Inauguration. It was taken by my cousin-in-law (Mike Stack); to him be all the glory! Needless to say, the inclusion of sports nuts in the list of the damned is priceless.
