…  ‘Global Temperature’ — Why Should We Trust A Statistic That Might Not Even Exist? – Issues & Insights . “Discussions on global warmi...

…  Scalia’s Applied Faith | The Russell Kirk Center . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) As Christopher Scalia pointed out at his father’s funeral mass,...

Memory belongs to the imagination. Human memory is not like a computer which records things; it is part of the imaginative process, on the ...

…  Johns Hopkins University Fires Professor Who Defied Campus Protesters . Students claimed their concern about armed campus police stemme...

…  Reviews and Marginalia : The Resurrection: History and Myth by Geza Vermes . Wittgenstein noted that the accounts of Jesus’ resurrection...

…   ‘Witcraft’ Review: Stop Your Blubbering - WSJ . (Hat tip,Dave Lull.) I studied philosophy within the context a particular philosophy — ...

…   The healing power of poetry . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) It beats like a heart, soothes emotional wounds, and builds life-giving connections...

…  What Is a Liturgist? - The Catholic Thing . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) I stand in line to receive, just as I stand in line for chili and doug...

…  The Biblio File hosted by Nigel Beale: Peggy Fox, former president and publisher of New Directions . Peggy L. Fox  is the former preside...

…  The poetry of Bei Dao and the paradox of Hong Kong . (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.) Dao was all of twenty-seven during the peaceful April Fifth ...

…  Zealotry of Guerin: View From The Dunes (Piet Mondrian), Sonnet #470 .

It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and wha...

…  Instapundit — TECH BLOG BEHIND THE BLACK REVIEWS my The Social Media Upheaval . “Reynolds has not only succinctly described in clear lan...

…  Abandoning Darwinism: Gelernter Talks with Meyer, Berlinski | Evolution News .

…  Peter Fonda Dead at 79 After Respiratory Failure from Lung Cancer | PEOPLE.com .

…  Charles Sanders Peirce was America's greatest thinker | Aeon Essays . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) I really can’t much about this piece bec...

…  Restoring a Great Intellectual Tradition to America’s Campuses — The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal . College campuses are ...

I must be off immediately to run some errands in what we call Center City. But I should be back by mid-afternoon.

…  Plants can tell time even without a brain – here's how .

…  Nigeness: It's That Man Again . For the record, I maintain that the best way to read Dante is in an edition with the original on one...

…   ‘The 12th Man,’ by Scott and Haug | Brandywine Books .

…  Replay: Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison “rehearse” My Fair Lady | About Last Night .

…   IN THE GROOVE with Cindy Annis | The Valley Patriot . Cindy is Rus Bowden's niece.

…  How personal letters built the possibility of a modern public | Aeon Essays . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) …  the earliest forms for public dis...

…  Solidarity Hall —  In Our Father’s Court . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) We gauge culture by the extent to which a whole people, not only indivi...

Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity. — Cha...

…  Simon's center-court star | The New Criterion . A re-telling of the Faust legend set in the world of professional tennis, it is not ...

… Worse Than Ever: Government Schools After 35 Years . Poor preparation, however, was only the tip of the iceberg.  Students did not bring...

I must off in a few minutes and won't be back until much later. Blogging will resume whenever.

…  Today is the 95th Anniversary of Playwright Robert Bolt’s Birth. – Reason.com . ALICE: While you talk, he's gone! MORE: And go ...

…  Bystanders taunted and laughed as police officers were being fired upon in Philadelphia - TheBlaze . This doesn't seem to have made ...

…  Nigeness: Children's Crusades, Then and Now .

…  From postmodernity to final participation: talking Owen Barfield – Mark Vernon .

…  First Known When Lost: Affinity .

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was born on this date in 1875.

…  Taking a stanza: Simon Armitage cancer poem engraved on a pill | Books | The Guardian . (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)

…  Poetry: Death at the Derby - The Patriotic Vanguard . (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)

…   Review: “Selected Poems” by Gwendolyn Brooks | Form in Formless Times . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Dreams and reality were both important in...

…  What Thom Gunn Thought of Oliver Sacks . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) The first Oliver I knew would have been the last person I would have thou...

Funny, isn't it, how your whole life goes by while you think you're only planning the way you're going to live it? — Edna Fer...

I must take my to PT. Will resume blogging when I can.

…   Louis Kemp Memoir Pulls Back the Curtain on Bob Dylan | Jewish Journa l . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) …  Kemp provides readers with glimpses ...

…  Language Is First Casualty of the 2020 Campaign . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Read it all. No one gets off easy.

…  Mali’s cultural hero Abdel Kader Haidara: how a librarian saved the treasures of Timbuktu | The Book Haven . The result was a heist wort...

…  A Kindly Light - The Catholic Thing . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Newman said in the Biglietto Speech, given in Rome when he was made a Cardin...

…  Paul Davis On Crime: A Little Humor: The Bible Told Him So .

…  3 Poems by Gwil James Thomas . …   Tatow by Holly Day . …  2 Poems by Foy Timms . …  The System by John D. Robinson . …  Obit by ...

…  Stéphane Grappelli - A Tribute. Introduced by Yehudi Menuhin. (BBC, full length 0:50) - video dailymotion . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Any fool can be fussy and rid himself of energy all over the place, but a man has to have something in him before he can settle down to do ...

…  Waterloo Of Boomer Catholics | The American Conservative . The parishioners of  this  “bastion of progressive Catholic faith” are free t...

… Journey to Nowhere — The American Scholar . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

…  How Are You, Dr. Sacks? A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks, by Lawrence Weschler | Booklist Online .

Yesterday morning, I paid a visit to our local RiteAid. When I came to check out, I got to the counter at the same time as another gentleman...

…  How to Punctuate with Style: Lewis Thomas’s Charming Meditation on the Subtleties of Language – Brain Pickings . Having spent a good str...

…  Episode 332 – Christopher Brown – The Virtual Memories Show . “ If you want to have a healthy society, people need to believe there is j...

…  Escalating the war on police - Washington Times . There was a time when criminals knew that assaulting or murdering a police officer wou...

…  Eight O'Clock by Sara Teasdale | Poetry Foundation . (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.) Sara Teasdale was born on August 8, 18854.

…  The Complaints of the Poor by Robert Southey | Poetry Foundation . (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.) Robert Southey was born on August 12, 1774...

…  I used to think gun control was the answer. My research told me otherwise. - The Washington Post . By the time we published our project,...

…  Three Men Attacked On Their Way to Synagogue, As Renewed Spate of Assaults Targets Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn | Jewish & Israel News A...

…   “Completely Unmasked at All Times”: On the Complete Piano Recordings of Oscar Levant - Los Angeles Review of Books . (Hat tip, Dave Lull...

…  Librarians facing new tasks say crisis isn't in the catalog - ABC News . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) You could deal with the homelessness ...

….  Cape Coral poet Lee Bennett Hopkins dies at age 81 . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

…  RTs Reviews and Marginalia : A Disease in the Public Mind: A New Understanding of Why We Fought the Civil War . I have myself long thoug...

…  Two cheers and dammit | About Last Night . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

The secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just anything, you begin to say what is import...

I have had much else to do today besides blog. Will get up to speed when circumstances permit.

…   20011: The Beneficiary . The Robert Scott mentioned herein would be Robert Montgomery Scott, who was president of the Philadelphia Muse...

…   Paul Davis On Crime: On This Day In history Ian Fleming, Author Of The James Bond Thrillers, Died .

…   RTs Reviews and Marginalia : There is a gold light in certain old paintings . Donald Justice was born on this date in 1925.

… not history:   Paul Davis On Crime: The Lies Of the Irishman: Netflix And Martin Scorsese Are Making Their Biggest Bets Ever On The Confes...

…  ‘So Huge a Phallic Triumph’: Why Apollo Had Little Appeal for Auden | by Edward Mendelson | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books . (H...

Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active. — Edith Hamilton  born on this date in 1867

…  I Immigrated to the US to Pursue the American Dream, Not to Pay for Your College Degree | Intellectual Takeout .

…   Paul Davis On Crime: A Little Humor: Hard Working Husband .

…  The Sonic Society — Sonic Summerstock Playhouse S10E06: Yellow Wallpaper .

…  Zealotry of Guerin: A Suite of Poetic Forms .

…  In praise of the semicolon, a most maligned punctuation mark | Spectator USA . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) This isn’t something that can be su...

…   ‘To Get Things More Real’: An Interview with Ira Glass | by Claudia Dreifus | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books . (Hat tip, Dave ...

…  On the Water - JAMES MATTHEW WILSON . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

…  Alexandra Oliver finds poetry in old films, the loneliness of parenthood and the aftermath of disaster | CBC Radio . (Hat tip, Dave Lull....

…  Mike Hammer Lives : The Booklist Reader . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)  In reading Spillane, it’s important, Collins emphasizes, to “consider t...

…  Human evolution and soul – Mark Vernon .  … there are activities our ancestors must have experienced as having intrinsic value, and tha...

…   The faith of the Inklings, with Malcolm Guite – Mark Vernon . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

…  Libraries can have 3-D printers but they are still about books . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) The news isn’t that library services and program...

…   RTs Reviews and Marginalia : Louise Bogan — “Knowledge” .

God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my missi...

…  Study: Physically Weak Men More Likely To Be Socialists | Daily Wire .

…  Paul Davis On Crime: Note to China, Russia, Iran And North Korea: US Aircraft Carriers Are Almost Unsinkable Giants Of The Ocean .

… Overcoming Bias : Against Irony . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Irony has been around for a long time. I think what is being talked about here is...

…   'Questioning Minds': Guy Davenport & Hugh Kenner's Letters Book Review | National Review . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) For 30...

…  Zealotry of Guerin: Alexander Confronts The Headless People (The Talbot Shrewsbury Book), Sonnet #469 .

…  Walt Whitman Not America's Greatest Poet | National Review . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) This is a rant, and like most such long on passio...

…  RTs Reviews and Marginalia : Laurence Binyon — birthday remembrance .

…  Remembering David Bevington | The Chicago Blog | The Chicago Blog . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) David Bevington’s influence as an editor and i...

… which is as it should be: Finnish Scientists: Effect of human activity on climate change insignificant . This article covers all the ba...

I like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through. — Barry Unsworth , born on this date in 1930

…  Europe Poised to Put Warning Labels on Jewish-Made Products .

…   “And the prize for speculation goes to…” How physics went down a post-empirical dead end | Prospect Magazine . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

…  West African slavery lives on, 400 years after transatlantic trade began - Reuters .