Rod
Dreher at American Conservative
posted an article that is mostly about the vote this week in Colombia, where an
agreement between the government and the longstanding guerilla group FARC was
defeated by voters, despite the polls predicting a wide margin of victory
(Brexit, Part Deux?). A fascinating chart at the end of the article has to do
with the United States. It’s actually a collection of nine charts of key
economic indicators for the last eight years, produced by the St. Louis Federal
Reserve. And those charts just might explain the appeal of Donald Trump (it’s
not limited only to the “deplorables”).
The
shadows lengthen: Yoni Appelbaum at The
Atlantic takes a look at the first presidential debate, and suggests that
America may actually have witnessed its first post-Christian debate. At the Claremont Review of Books, Angelo
Codevilla says we may now be looking at the end of the American republic.
According
to the Old Testament, King Hezekiah of Judah was one of the reforming kings,
and ordered the destruction of cult sites and altars. Archaeologists in Israel
may have found evidence of that reform – in an ancient toilet. Richard Gray at The Daily Mail has the story.
North of
the US border, a University of Toronto professor has released a video in which
he explains why he refuses to use genderless pronouns. CBC Radio interviewed
him.
Life and Culture
After the Republic – Angelo Codevilla at Claremont Review of Books.
America’s First Post-Christian
Debate – Yoni Appelbaum at The Atlantic.
Breaking the Black Box: Profiling
on Facebook – Pro Publica.
“I’m
not a bigot” – CBC Radio interview with Professor Jordan Peterson.
A
Lesson from Colombia’s Vote? – Rod Dreher at American Conservative.
Poetry
Aleppo’s children – Barbara Mackenzie at Signed…BKM.
We
Never Know -- Ana Lisa de Jong.
An
ending – Niall Gooch at Niall’s writing blog.
Ten Lepers
Leaping – Tim Good at Pics, Poems, and Ponderings.
John
Glenday’s ‘The Big Push’ (Videopoem) – via Maureen Doallas at Writing
Without Paper.
At
Home in Heaney country – Rachel Cooke at The Guardian.
History
The
Wrong Kind of Throne – Richard Gray at The Daily Mail.
Faith
This
is my story, this is my song – Troy Cady at T(r)oy
Marbles.
Higher than That – Paul
Phillips at Altarwork.
Three
Essential Requirements for Flourishing – Dr. Anne Bradley at Faith, Work,
& Economics.
Eaten
by Lions, Facebook Style – Samuel D. James.
Acappella:
Abba Father
Painting: Woman Reading, oil on canvas by Henri Matisse (1894); Musee National d’Arte Moderne, Paris.
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