For years, my wife and I have dutifully recycled. Our suburb has had an active recycling program for a long time. At one time, you brought your materials to the center. Now, it’s curbside pickup. Some months back, we read that nearly 90 percent of all plastics that are theoretically recycled actually aren’t, simply because there’s no competitive market. And most of those recycled plastic bottles, detergent jugs, and other #1, #2, and #5 materials end up being shipped to places like Nigeria, where they are promptly dumped into rivers flowing to the ocean. The Center for Climate Integrity recently published a report, “The Fraud of Plastic Recycling.”
I’ve been thinking about producing a new bingo card, with a space for every time this year I hear “threat to democracy,” “end of democracy,” and similar sentiments. These sentiments are usually expressed by people willing to do anything to discredit a certain political candidate. And if it means destroying democracy in the process, so be it, reminding me of that army major in Vietnam who said, “We had to destroy the village in order to save it.” Mark Tapscott at The Epoch Times describes a different direction for the threat to democracy, describing how the government used “Track F” to fund censorship tools. Matt Taibbi at Racket News describes an award he’s getting, and why it’s so worrisome as America enters the “Samizdat Era.”
More Good Reads
Life and Culture
Campus confidential: Inside the secret Cambridge societies hiding their unfashionable views – Charlie Bentley-Astor at The Critic Magazine.
Liberals and the Libel of “Christian Nationalism” – John Horvat at The Imaginative Conservative.
Writing and Literature
Ten Years without Gabriel Garcia Marquez: An Oral History – Silvana Paternostro at The Paris Review.
The Lord of the Rings: A Reader’s Guide to a Christian Classic – Austin Freeman at Desiring God.
American Stuff
The Soldier by the Road – Bert Dunkerly at Emerging Revolutionary War Era.
Nathan Bedford Forrest Redeemed? Part 1 and Part 2 – Evan Portman at Emerging Civil War.
The Women Codebreakers Who Uncovered Some of the Cold War’s Most Notorious Spies – Katherine Reay at CrimeReads.
Faith
Holly Ordway on Tolkien’s Faith – Alan Cornett at Front Porch Republic.
Decisive Moments: The Fall of Jerusalem – Wes Bredenhof.
Ukraine
The epic battle that saved Kyiv from Russian occupation – Tim Mak at The Counteroffensive.
Art
New dawn: The birth of Impressionism revisited 150 years later in Paris exhibition – Martin Bailey at The Art Newspaper. See exhibition page at Musee d’Orsay.
Place – Sonja Benskin Mesher.
Poetry
To Catch the Wind – Lucia Haase at Society of Classical Poets.
The Seafarer: Man’s Despairing Mind, Wyrd Waters, & Gold in Death – Cody Ilardo at Power & Glory.
Tea Cakes with Jesus – Kate Gaton at Rabbit Room Poetry.
Archaeology
An Astounding Excavation Uncovered a Medieval Village Under an Ancient Abbey – Darren Orf at Popular Mechanics.
News Media
“The Silly Furor Over “Allegedly” – Matt Taibbi at Racket News.
LinkedIn doubles down on news as social rivals retreat – Sara Fischer at Axios.
Lexington – Casey McPherson of Alpha Rev
Painting: St. Luke, oil on canvas (1625) by Frans Hals (ca. 1582-1666); Odesa Museum of Western and Eastern Art.
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Here's how we save democracy in America - Get rid of the Deep State!
Blessings, Glynn!
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