…  The National Book Critics Circle: Behind the Resignations .

…  Who's afraid of James Joyce? A guide to reading 'Ulysses' . …  Changed, but still Joycean at its core . …  Hero of Joyce...

(Hat tip, Dave Lull)

…  Trayvon's Mom, Sybrina Fulton: 'I Think We Need More Police' .

…  The Grumpy Economist: The cancel culture twitter mob comes to economics . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) It was an economist — Herbert Stein — wh...

…  221b Baker Street and Beyond: On the enormously influential works of a Golden Age innovator . .

…  Letters in the Time of Covid - Andy Smarick, Commentary Magazine . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) I quickly realized two things. First, hand-writ...

…  NBCC Board Gutted as Fallout Over Leaked Emails, Race Issues Widens . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) One would think that such well-read people, ...

…  Coronavirus: Dexamethasone proves first life-saving drug - BBC News . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a clear conscience? — Adam Smith , born on th...

…  221b Baker Street and Beyond: Maigret by Georges Simenon .

…  De Blasio Orders Gates Welded Shut at Jewish Park While Approving Mass BLM Gatherings – Summit News .

IT’S JUST A KISS AWAY –  A Poetry In Common Zoom Reading (ZOOM INVITATION BELOW) Tuesday, June 16, 7-8:30PM POEMS GOOD TO HEAR AT THIS TIME ...

…  On Diligence | Mere Orthodoxy . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

…  How  Racist Was Flannery O’Connor? | The New Yorker . 7  Judge not, that ye be not judged. 2  For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall ...

…  Outsider Art Fair . Art Brut Global - Phase II : New Discoveries June 18 – July 10 Launches Thursday, June 18, 9 am EST 

I am about to take off to have our taxes done. I probably won’t be blogging again until sometime this afternoon.

…  How Wordsworth and Coleridge Forged Romantic Movement . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) They were different in so many ways, each embodying distin...

God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament. — Evelyn...

…  Fifty-four scientists have lost their jobs as a result of NIH probe into foreign ties | Science | AAAS . “It’s not what we had hoped, an...

…  Worst of times: why Charles Dickens would have hated lockdown | Literary trips | The Guardian . (Hat tip, Tim Davis.) The restless write...

…  The past three months have proved it: the costs of lockdown are too high | Business | The Guardian . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) For a start, ...

…  Book Review: The Surprising Science of Walking . (Hat tip, Tim Davis.) O’Mara, a professor of experimental brain research at Trinity Coll...

…  Turmoil Rocks NBCC Board . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Responding to Kellogg's statement in  PW , Romano said that Kellogg had misrepresen...

…  A Paean to Craftsmanship | The Russell Kirk Center . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Stallings’s Hesiod, in many ways, is closer to the jealous po...

…  Nigeness: 'The first fear...'

…  Philosophy & The Creation of the Individual – Mark Vernon . We can gain a sense of the radical nature of Aristotle’s move if we cons...

…  Orthodox Jews Sue Cuomo And de Blasio Over 'Blatant Double-Standard' - Vos Iz Neias .

…  Zealotry of Guerin: Young Greeks at a Cockfight (Jean-Leon Gerome), Sonnet #515 .

But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government be...

…  Bibles Pulled From Shelves For Outdated Idea That All Humans Are Of One Race And Made In The Image Of God | The Babylon Bee .

…  RT’s miscellaneous musings and reviews: Navigating through memory on the Gulf coast .

…  On Poetry and Translation: A Conversation with A. M. Juster - Athenaeum Review . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

…   Horowitz: The new panic lie: Increased coronavirus hospitalizations and cases in the southwest - Conservative Review . (Hat tip, Dave Lu...

…  The woke revolution in American journalism has begun . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Ben Smith's recent and very informative  essay  in the...

…  The American Press Is Destroying Itself - Reporting by Matt Taibbi . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) The leaders of this new movement are replacin...

History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought. — Ètienne Gilson , born on this date in 1884

…  RT’s miscellaneous musings and reviews: Meet Mr. Bucket, Embodiment of Dickens' Misgivings About Police .

…  Public Health Experts’ U-Turn on Coronavirus, Mass Gatherings . …  what we should not tolerate, and what the scientific community cannot...

…  First Known When Lost: Dew .

…   Undercover Nurse Exposes Tip of NY Hospital COVID-19 Disaster - YouTube . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… Why do people write fiction? by Frank J. Fleming – According To Hoyt . …  indoctrinating people with your fiction isn’t easy. You have to...

…  McGruff The Crime Dog Put Down | The Babylon Bee . He will be missed — at least by some of us.

…  R.T.’s Miscellany (and book reviews): Oliver Twist as manuscript and motivator .

…  Racist Police Violence Reconsidered - Quillette . As with anything written by John McWhorter, read the whole thing.

…  White Democrat Leaders Take Stand Against White Privilege By Resigning From Congress | The Babylon Bee .

…   Poetry Foundation Capitulates to a Mob | National Review . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Most poets would do well to steer clear of politic...

…  Top Shots: The Most Compelling Photojournalism Of The Week . (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)

…  'Things fall apart': the apocalyptic appeal of WB Yeats's The Second Coming | Books | The Guardian . (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.) ...

…  U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo’s “Crazy Brave” chosen for 2020’s One Book, One Region | Entertainment | thewesterlysun.com . (Hat tip, Rus ...

…  UA philosophy professor abruptly resigns as editor-in-chief of international philosophy journal over ethics dispute - The Daily Wildcat .

…  NHDem Senator: Working-Class Parents Don't Have Intelligence to Oversee Their Kids' Educations – InsideSources . My factory-wor...

I do not want merely to possess a faith, I want a faith that possesses me. — Charles Kingsley , born in this date in 1819

(Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

…  Prof Karol Sikora: Covid-19 death toll may be less than half of what has been recorded . Surely I am not the only person to have notice...

… and see if his prophecy comes true:  '100,000 more people will die from coronavirus in US before September' | Daily Mail Online .

…  Miscellaneous Musings & Archived Reviews: The Hummingbird’s Daughter (2005) . I reviewed Luis Albert Urrea's nonfiction book Th...

… Facts are so pre-Covid, only fiction fits . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Of course, we remain dimly aware that people did exist and history di...

…  Must-Read Poetry: June 2020 - The Millions . (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)

…  Faces Of The Balkans, 100 Years Ago . (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)

…  Richard Silver Discusses His Photos of Historic Theaters Around the World . (hat tip, Rus Bowden.)

I was playing when I invented the aqualung. I think play is the most serious thing in the world. — Jacques Cousteau , born on this date ...

…  Rare June snowstorm blankets Colorado Springs and parts of Wyoming | AccuWeather . The only time I've ever seen snow in July is w...

…  Miscellaneous Musings and Reviews: Charles Dickens: how the author's life was fictionalised after his death .

…  Public Health Experts are Embarrassing Themselves – Reason.com . One Ivy League epidemiologist, for example,  claimed  that President Tr...

…  In fiery speech, NY police union chief slams media, politicians for "vilifying" cops: "It's disgusting! It's disgu...

…  America's strange new religious rites . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) As Chesterton observed, "the problem of disbelieving in God is ...

…  Discussing the Need for Reliable Antibody Testing for COVID-19 – NIH Director's Blog . (Hat tio, Jeff Mauvais.) Collins : For somebo...

…   Miscellaneous Musings and Reviews: Emily Dickinson’s amazing distiller y .

Those who created this country chose freedom. With all of its dangers. And do you know the riskiest part of that choice they made? They act...

…   Tribalism Comes for Pandemic Science - The New Atlantis . Our polarized political culture has reflexively approached the pandemic as ju...

…  WHO walks back comments on asymptomatic transmission of coronavirus - Axios . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) They'll get it right one of the...

…  Democrats Propose Replacing All Police With Traveling Bands Of Hippies Singing 'Imagine' | The Babylon Bee . … Imagine no pol...

…  We can no longer ignore the potential of psychedelic drugs to treat depression | Robin Carhart-Harris | Opinion | The Guardian . Well, ...

…  Greek tragedy is a nasty, bawdy business | The Book Haven . The Greeks gave an entire art form to that thought, to that feeling of root ...

Carl Nielsen was born on this date in 1865. The name of the symphony in English is "The Inextinguishable." Nielsen wrote: ...

…   Miscellaneous Musings and Reviews: Please ignore the Indian wife of the white hunter, but choose instead the romance of Monte Beni .

… though it won't please everyone:  Coronavirus Update XVII: End The Farce Now – William M. Briggs . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) We shall s...

The soul seeks God by faith, not by the reasonings of the mind and labored efforts, but by the drawings of love; to which inclinations God ...

… “At the Mercy of My Passions and Opinions”: A Conversation with William Kennedy - Los Angeles Review of Books . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

…  Why the Wuhan Flu Turned Violent | The Pipeline . In short, nearly everything they told us about the second coming of the Black Death tu...

… Epidemic of wipes and masks plague sewers, storm drains .

…  New York Times op-ed revolt betrays it values, is ominous warning about censorship :: Judith Miller . And here’s this to remind you ...

…  WHO: Data suggests it's "very rare" for coronavirus to spread through asymptomatics - Axios .

…   A. E. Stallings: Movement and Stillness —Quarantine and sculpture in the First Cemetery of Athen s . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) A working ce...

I must run some errands. Blogging will resume whenever I get back.

…   Nigeness: Henry Newbolt .

…  Just because: Carson McCullers on board the Queen Mary | About Last Night .

…   Canadian professor canned for opinion that biological sex is a real thing | The College Fix . “Academic freedom […] applies to all aspe...

… go right ahead:  Alex Berenson: New York Times editorial page editor's resignation a terrible omen for freedom of expression | Fox New...

…  Struck by Lightning for Poetry: A Tribute to Robert Mezey - YouTube . (hat tip, Dave Lull.)

…   Miscellaneous Musings and Reviews: Gentle readers and consummate asses .

…  Caravaggio: Revelation and Revolution - The Catholic Thing . Caravaggio’s work is almost always defined by darkness – by techniques know...

To stay in one place and watch the seasons come and go is tantamount to constant travel: One is traveling with the earth. — Marguerite Yo...

…  Political Leaders Use Science to Duck Responsibility For Decisions . However scientific they try to be, they’re swayed by some of the sa...

…  Instapundit — TRUST THE EXPERTS. They know the science. …

…   J.R.R. Tolkien and the OED | Oxford English Dictionary . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

…  Miscellaneous Musings and Reviews: Stop the world because I want to get off, and please stop with the politically correct booklists ... ...

…  Zealotry of Guerin: Madame Jeantaud at the Mirror (Edgar Degas), Sonnet #514 .

…  Lionel Shriver: 'Moby-Dick? Get on with it: did the old bastard catch the fish, or didn’t he?' | Books | The Guardian . The boo...