Campus antics continue; this time, Bret Weinstein, a biology
professor at Evergreen State in Washington, had his classroom invaded by the cadres
of the cultural revolution. Not to be outdone, Yale University honored two
students who bullied its faculty last year.
If you raised children in the 1980s and 1990s (as we did),
you know first-hand of the self-esteem craze (everyone gets a trophy) took over
the collective imagination of our educational industry. Jesse Singal at the
Science of Us (New York Magazine) explains how it happened and what was the
result.
All kinds of contra-cultural things are popping up.
Jonathan Leeman at The Gospel Coalition examines what white privilege does –
and doesn’t – mean. Derek Rishmawy tackles listening to millennials, and asks
what millennials are we supposed to be listening to? Andrew Spence considers
social justice, and makes his case for it being what you don’t think it is. Zak
Schmoll argues that the Western Canon is important for Christians.
And good poetry, good articles on writing, and good
photography. And did you know there was a time when buying life insurance was
considered immoral?
American Stuff
James
Madison & the Compound Republic – Kevin Gutzman at The Imaginative
Conservative.
St.
John Neumann: American saint who arrived with $1 in his pocket and one suit of
clothes – Philip Koslowski at Aleteia.
When
Buying Life Insurance Was Deemed Immoral – Virginia Postrel at Reason.
Life and Culture
The
Hunting of Bret Weinstein – Rod Dreher at American Conservative.
The
disappearing computer – Walt Mossberg at The Verge.
Google
now mingles everything you've bought with everywhere you've been – Andrew
Orlowski at The Register.
Yale
Cements Its Line in the Academic Sand by Awarding the Student ‘Truthtellers’
Who Bullied Faculty – James Kirchik at Tablet.
Choose
Your Apocalypse Now – Stewart McAlpine.
Seeing
Seamlessly – Dr. Steven Garber at The Washington Institute for Faith,
Vocation & Culture.
How
the Self-Esteem Craze Took Over America – Jesse Singal at the Science of Us
(New York Magazine).
Faith
More
Than Mere Equality: Identity Politics, White Privilege, and Gospel Peace –
Jonathan Leeman at The Gospel Coalition.
On
“Listening” to Millennials (And What Does That Even Mean?) – Derek Rishmawy
at Reformed-ish.
Manifold
Destiny – Tim Good at Musings of a Naked Alien.
Review:
Social Justice Isn’t What You Think It Is – Andrew Spencer at the Institute
for Faith, Work, & Economics.
Why
the Traditional Western Canon is Important for Christians – Zak Schmoll at
Entering the Public Square.
Art and Photography
Remembrance
– Susan Etole.
Cycling
the Skoga River region in Iceland – Neil Ennis.
Unsung
– Tim Good at Photography and Poetry of Tiwago.
Poetry
Hands
– Ana Lisa de Jong.
Dance of
the wildflower – Barbara MacKenzie at Signed…BKM.
The
Poetic Vision of G.M. Hopkins – Dwight Longenecker at The Imaginative
Conservative.
Teaching That
‘Infamous’ Poetry – Michael Dickel at The BeZine.
Line Breaks –
Jerry Barrett at Gerald the Writer.
Writing
If You’ll Accept
the Struggle – Mick Silva.
The
Trouble with Memoir is a Wiggly Mind – Ann Kroeker.
Why
Literary Journals Don’t Pay – M.R. Branwen at The Millions.
Patric Petrie:
Crested Hens
Painting: Young Man
Reading by Light (1926) by Norman Rockwell, part of his work for a General
Electric advertising campaign.
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