Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. Ta-Nehisi Coates has taken some time to respond to critiques of his slave reparations essay featured here last week: I wanted to take moment to reply to Kevin Williamson’s Case […]
Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. Long read of the week is Ta-Nehisi Coates making the case for reparations: As the historian Roy E. Finkenbine has documented, at the dawn of this country, black reparations were actively considered and […]
Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. The Institute for Family Studies explains why men are more likely to benefit from marriage: The fact that men are legendarily wary of marriage is stranger than it first appears. […]
Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. Hashtag activism seems to be all the rage but in the case of Nigeria it might be making things worse: Here’s the thing though, when you pressure Western powers, particularly […]
Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. This week Biola University hosted an interesting conversation on the Future of Protestantism (video). The Times reviews a Barbara Ehrenreich book that was featured in past Briefings: “Living With a Wild […]
Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. In an excellent essay at Salon, David Foster Wallace’s concerns about irony are reconsidered: So where have we gone from irony? Irony is now fashionable and a widely embraced default […]
Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. At the New York Times, the well-known Barbara Ehrenreic, writes on a personal mystical experience from the point of view of an atheist: But something happened when I was 17 […]
Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. When Zadie Smith writes something, it gets linked. This time on climate change: There is the scientific and ideological language for what is happening to the weather, but there are […]
Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. The Washington Post reviews a new book about life in the minor leagues: Imagine: From your childhood on, you are better at the work you love than almost anyone else. […]