John M. Breen @Breen3M

Professor of Law @Loyolalaw Chicago, IL Joined August 2015

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John M. Breen @Breen3M

2 days ago

@HeinleinMichael I was present when +George first offered these remarks at Old Saint Pat’s. An “exhausted project.” Still true today.

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4 days ago

@GrayConnolly Hard to coordinate with league schedules

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My own GB program had a definite educational structure with GB seminars center place, surrounded by multiple tutorials in philosophy (ethics, politics, epistemology, metaphysics, aesthetics), and fine arts, literature (poetry, the novel, theatre), history and philosophy of science, and history of ideas, with a mandatory directed senior thesis. Was it perfect? No. Could other text be added? Certainly. Was it thoughtful, rigorous, and engaging? Absolutely.

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John M. Breen @Breen3M

4 days ago

@Le_Master @_CLancellotti Low standards are where public education dwells as bottom feeders. These are skills, so granted, they are not unique to Great Books programs, but the frequency with which GB students acquire these skills (owing to the methods employed) compared to other programs is striking.

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John M. Breen @Breen3M

6 days ago

@ChristopherHale You say to be pro-life means providing financial support to women as this will reduce abortion. We should provide such support in solidarity even though the data shows other reasons are more important and other countries’ more generous assistance has not reduced the incidence.

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John M. Breen @Breen3M

6 days ago

Happy to self-correct if warranted, as is any true academic. Your public profile is full of generalities (e.g. that you are progressive and pro-life) but no repudiation of the claimed legal right to kill the unborn. If that’s your position you’ve done a remarkably good job of hiding it.

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John M. Breen @Breen3M

a week ago

Humanity is not a quality attained by passing through the cervix. We refer to the young of human parents as a “child” without regard to his or her capacity. The standard use of language (which reflects an underlying scientific reality) should not be altered to serve political ends.

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John M. Breen @Breen3M

a week ago

@ChristopherHale You are “pro-life” but you support the legal killing of unborn children. I suppose rhetoric is a kind of cope.

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a week ago

@joaosilveiraaa I wonder whether, if you had a pilgrimage made up of Melkites or Ukrainians and asked permission to celebrate the Byzantine liturgy across to that rite, you would have received the same answer? Or whether some spiritual munificence would have been shown?

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John M. Breen @Breen3M

2 weeks ago

@ClayTravis Maybe the US has a “foreboding image” and Europe sees the US as an “inhospitable place” because places like USA Today require their “journalists” to have a lobotomy before working there

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John M. Breen @Breen3M

2 weeks ago

@CalebGoatQB1 Welcome to Chicago and America 🇺🇸. Glad to have you here. Good luck to die Mannschaft 🇩🇪

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John M. Breen @Breen3M

2 weeks ago

@HeinleinMichael Congratulations!

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2 weeks ago

@JLLiedl @crawlings13 A responsibility that they have almost uniformly shirked

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2 weeks ago

@TradVat2 Roma locuta, causa finita est

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John M. Breen @Breen3M

2 weeks ago

@AGHamilton29 @bariweiss Chain smokers who hang out together can’t tell that they reek of tobacco, even when they’re not smoking. But a non-smoker can.

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John M. Breen @Breen3M

3 weeks ago

@dilanesper @DouthatNYT Substitute “almost all abolitionists were religious” and get back to me about the origin story of the 13th Amendment and how you think it’s acksually contrary to the Establishment Clause

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John M. Breen @Breen3M

3 weeks ago

@DouthatNYT @dilanesper And to complete the argument they must maintain that ascribing substantial moral status to the fetus can only be done on exclusively religious grounds, as opposed to inclusion in the species Homo sapiens without regard to some current level of ability