Saturday, July 30, 2022

Saturday Good Reads - July 30, 2022


Some years back, KFUO-FM, the last classical radio channel in St. Louis, was sold by the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod. It was a blow to classical music in the region. But it affected mostly our own metropolitan area. Recently, the BBC in Britain made a similar announcement. The BBC operates a number of different television and radio channels. The organization’s director general, Tim Davie, announced the termination of BBC Four, which carries music of a number of symphony orchestras in Britain as well as the Proms. And that may be the end of a major British institution.   

Anika Prather and Angel Adams Parham have a new idea for education in the United States, one that focuses on all students but also highlights the Black experience in the United States. It’s classical Christian education – the same kind my grandsons are getting. (Prediction: the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers will not be impressed.) Mere Orthodoxy has a review of the book.

 

I’ve added a new category for Good Reads, one I’ve entitled “Follow the Science!” The first two entries concern ruling paradigms that were upset – two in the same week. One concerns the long-held belief that depression resulted from a chemical imbalance in the brain. The other is about the accepted orthodoxy about plaque contributing to or causing Alzheimer’s. The first turns out to be wrong; the second may have been fabricated. See the story links below.

 

More Good Reads

 

Writing and Literature

 

On the Loneliness and Insecurity of Writing – Samuel D. James at Digital Liturgies.

 

A warning to professional writers who would lean on AI content tools – David Murray at Writing Boots.

 

Beowulf: A Horror Show – Eleanor Johnson at Public Books.

 

Faith

 

We Need More Holy Fools – Scott Hubbard at Desiring God.

 

From Vanity Fair to “Well Done” – Henry Anderson at The Cripplegate.

 

British Stuff

 

England’s New Conservative Superstar – Zoe Strimpel at Common Sense.

 

Life and Culture

 

Baseball – Millie Sweeney at Story Warren. 

 

Dr. Rigby’s Ugly Cry – Daniel Ray at Front Porch Republic.

 

Dobbs vs. Roe: See How They Love One Another – Tara Ann Thieke at Front Porch Republic. 

 

Follow the Science!

 

Blots on a Field? A neuroscience image sleuth finds signs of fabrication in scores of Alzheimer’s articles, threatening a reigning theory of the disease – Charles Piller at Science Magazine.

 

Scientists Find No Evidence That Depression Is Caused by “Chemical Imbalance” or Low Serotonin Levels – SciTechDaily.

 

Poetry

 

London in Those Times – Estill Pollock at The High Window.

 

Cordelia’s Choice – Brian Yapko at Society of Classical Poets.

 

Ukraine

 

Ukraine in Black and White: Recalling the moral clarity of Lillian Hellman’s The North Star – Timothy Jacobson at The Spectator

 

Volodymyr Zelenskyy Presented the Sir Winston Churchill Leadership Award 2022 by Boris Johnson – International Churchill Centre.

 

I Once Wrote—and Spoke, and Thought—in Russian… No More – Volodymyr Rafeenko at Literary Hub. 

 

News Media

 

The Future of the Daily Newspaper: As newspapers cut print editions, lines blur between dailies and weeklies – Greg Burns at Northwestern University’s Local News Initiative.

 

I Love You – RIOPY



 Painting: An Old Man Reading, oil on canvas by Hendrick Bloemaert (1601-1672), Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest. 

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