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More Verb Than Noun made its debut in July 2022 and five months later was named Best New Wisconsin Substack. If it’s true certain things are best never discussed in polite company, this is a most impolite journal. It’s about politics, religion, sex, race and class.

What’s in the name?

This Substack is named for what its author has been saying for years . . . that democracy is more verb than noun, which is to say actions we take more so than a possession we have. If we don’t do it, we won’t have it. Same goes for morality. It’s been said that god is shorthand for good. More an act of doing and a way of living than a person, place or thing. Love is like that too. It’s not something we can keep as a pet or store in the attic, it’s a way of being treated and treating others. Again, more verb than noun.

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