The Week in Review Returns
But postponed to tomorrow, on Sunday (TDE Housekeeping Blog Post)
Topic
Miscellaneous
A collection of 3799 issues
Easter
"When the disciples saw the risen Christ, they beheld him as a reality in the world, though no longer of it, respecting the order of the world, but Lord of its laws. To behold such reality was different and more than to see a tree or watch a man
How To Halt or Disengage From an Overtalker
From Well + Good
Epstein on Small Talk
Small talk is best thought of as an art, a minor but nonetheless real one.
Mystery: Numinous, yet decipherable
From the Hedgehog Review
The musical note that can trigger cold sweats and sightings of the dead
From The Spectator
The Plague of Thoughtlessness
Photo by Vishnu R Nair on Pexels.com
[https://www.pexels.com/photo/people-at-concert-1105666/]Sometimes modern
perplexities call for ancient wisdom. Today, St. Thomas Aquinas’ warning about
the vice of “thoughtlessness” may shine a light on contemporary discourse—if
trite prattle even qualifies as discourse. More to
I Returned from my Annual Pilgrimmage to the Detroit Slums
Standing outside a gay bar in Highland ParkAnother whirlwind holiday weekend.
I won’t bore you with the autobiographical details, but I made my annual
daredevil trip down McNichols Road in Detroit, which is also known as “Six Mile
Road,” which runs two blocks south of notorious Eight Mile.
The
Miscellany
England after 1688 and bears in the gay community
Rise of the Moneyed
I'm enjoying volume 4 of Peter Ackroyd's history of England: Revolution: The
History of England from the Battle of the Boyne to the Battle of Waterloo
[https://amzn.to/2GJFCCi].
I wanted to
Biden Will Pack the Court?
And why it's a really big deal
Court Packing
Man, scary stuff. Every right-of-center news outlet heard it: Biden refused to
say he wouldn't pack the court.
I didn't see a single mainstream news outlet mention it. I'm sure some