Biologist Jerry Coyne has joined with “ethicist” Peter
Singer in calling for euthanasia of children with severe disabilities. Zak
Schmoll, who has a disability himself, responds. This issue is important
(euthanasia is now the third leading cause of death in the Netherlands); it
starts with reasoning based on compassion but seems to move rather quickly
toward a utilitarian view of life. And someone has to define what “utilitarian”
means.
A software engineer at Google wrote an email on the
company’s diversity statements, programs, and activities. The world nearly came
to an end, judging by the reactions. The progressive left was outraged at what
he wrote (challenging Google’s policy) while the conservative right pointed to
what they see as Google’s inconsistency and rank hypocrisy. Rod Dreher has the (more
conservative side of the) story, and it’s been widely reported. And the engineer himself (I was surprised at how young he is) was interviewed by a University of Toronto psychology professor. I looked at Google’s
official statement; Google needs to find a better statement writer, change its
attorneys who approved the statement, and/or get ready for the lawsuit.
Tim Good has some beautiful images from an Illinois farm.
Literary Life has a story about a famous Thomas Cole painting. Joe Carter
wonders what to think about a new report about the Shroud of Turin. David
Rupert reflects on the death of a friend.
And one of the homes T.S. Eliot lived in London is for
sale – for under one million pounds. A bargain, I’d say.
Life and Culture
The
Return of Christian Humanism – David Bonagura at The Imaginative
Conservative.
What
I Learned about Journalism at the New York Post
– Julia Dahl at Columbia Journalism
Review.
Responding
to Jerry Coyne with a Disability – Zak Schmoll at Entering the Public
Square.
Google
is Being Evil After All – Rod Dreher at American
Conservative and an interview with James Damore by Toronto psychology professor Jordan Peterson.
Google is Not What It Seems -- Julian Assange at Wikileaks.
Google is Not What It Seems -- Julian Assange at Wikileaks.
Why
Germans Pay Cash for Almost Everything – Matt Phillips at Quartz.
Poetry
My
Life as an Open-Air Temple – Sharon Dolin at Image Journal.
The
City Where I Forgot You – Brendan MacOdrum at Oran’s Well.
Art and Photography
Another
monsoon sunrise, southeast Arizona – Harvey Stanbrough via Facebook.
The
Voyage of Life by Thomas Cole (1842) – Literary Life.
Writing and
Literature
Hunting
Good Will (Shakespeare) – Dwight Longenecker at The Imaginative
Conservative.
Why
Note-Taking by Hand is Better for Your Brain – Joseph Pearce at The
Imaginative Conservative.
Faith
What
Should Evangelicals Think about the Shroud of Turin? – Joe Carter at The
Gospel Coalition.
The
Worth of Every Human Life and Every Day
is a Blessing: Reflections on the death of a friend – David Rupert at Red-Letter
Believers.
British Stuff
T. S.
Eliot's London home is on the market for less than £1 million – The Telegraph (Hat Top: J of India).
Roman
Roads of Britain Visualized as a Tube-Style Map – Anglotopia.
What a Wonderful
World with David Attenborough – BBC One
Painting: Woman Reading, oil on canvas by Tavik Frantisek Simon (1877-1942).
Thank you for being a blessing!
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