Dear Lord, in this world of palpable evil, give all people of goodwill the wisdom, the courage, and the means to resist and overcome it.
Read the rest, by Ira Katz, here.
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Leonard Bernstein Discussing Beethoven’s 6th and 7th Symphony
9 minute video here.
He ends by saying nothing in Beethoven’s music is remarkable – except ‘the form’, meaning that every note is exactly right, ‘as if he’d had a direct line to heaven, to God.’
Rapid-Onset Political Enlightenment
How Barack Obama built an omnipotent thought-machine, and how it was destroyed.
Long article by David Samuels.
Power Grabbers in American History
Article by Gary North (from 2007).
The vindication of a heretic
Article by Brendan O’Neill.
Excerpts:
Jay Bhattacharya is right: ‘scientism’ is a menace to truth and liberty.
But Bhattacharya’s mission is less one of personal vengeance than of scientific restoration. He told his hearing that he wants to bring back ‘the very essence of science’ to the NIH. And what might that be? ‘Dissent’, he said.
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That we scientists found ourselves in the position of telling the masses they ‘shouldn’t be saying goodbye to [their] grandfather as he’s dying in a hospital’ was awful, he said. What we should have done is say ‘Here’s what the risks are’, and then let people decide whether to take them.
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That we scientists found ourselves in the position of telling the masses they ‘shouldn’t be saying goodbye to [their] grandfather as he’s dying in a hospital’ was awful, he said. What we should have done is say ‘Here’s what the risks are’, and then let people decide whether to take them.
Jeffrey Sachs: Negotiating a Lasting Peace in Ukraine
Article here.
Jeffrey D. Sachs is a University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, where he directed The Earth Institute from 2002 until 2016. He is also President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and a commissioner of the UN Broadband Commission for Development. He has been advisor to three United Nations Secretaries-General, and currently serves as an SDG Advocate under Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. Sachs is the author, most recently, of “A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism” (2020). Other books include: “Building the New American Economy: Smart, Fair, and Sustainable” (2017) and “The Age of Sustainable Development,” (2015) with Ban Ki-moon.
Gay Marriage, Surrogacy, Divorce & Hookup Culture
Jordan Peterson in discussion with Katy Faust.
Watch in particular from here. They talk about bias in parenting studies and ‘the Cinderella effect’.
Western Classical Music: The Ultimate in Human Creation
Article by Ira Katz.
Excerpt:
In the counter cultural era that I grew up in, listening to classical music could be considered to be the real counter cultural expression. But this was not my intent at all. I was more like the naive child who noticed the emperor’s new clothes were nothing compared to those old clothes.
Chihuahuas, Not Dobermans
Article by Patrick Lawrence.
Excerpt:
This new round of foolishness among the Europeans is not funny. This is not a Terry Southern script. Under the circumstances — a likely settlement somewhere in the offing — it is a criminally careless of human lives and the well-being of 450 million European citizens.
I see only one explanation for this. It is the diabolic outcome of the liberal authoritarianism I go on about in this space. The neoliberal order must must must prevail no matter what the cost, no matter how obviously irrational this repudiation of reason proves.
Woke isn’t over yet
“It will take far more than Trump’s flurry of executive orders to uproot identity politics.“
Article by Gilbert Sewall
The most important talk on the demographic crisis you will ever hear
Stephen Shaw talking at ARC.