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Linkfest 2021-09-03: Rest for Those Who Labor and Are Heavy Laden

The feast day of St. Joseph the Worker is of course May Day, but Labor Day is also an appropriate occasion to remember and appreciate the Sons of Martha that quietly make the world go round. I Might Believe in Faeries Internet friend Aaron Irber has a new podcast about

Linkfest 2021-08-27: The Götterdämmerung of the Experts

Galaxy Magazine 1968: Pro and Con This ad from a 1968 issue of Galaxy magazine is a fascinating glimpse into the controversies of the past, and an opportunity for us to reflect on current events in Afghanistan. I didn’t find a lot of surprises in the authors who signed

Linkfest 2021-08-20: More Science Than You're Used To

DarwinCatholic: COVID Death Trends: The Young and the Old Are Okay Now My internet friend Brendan Hodge at Darwin Catholic shows us with CDC mortality data that the old and the young have largely returned to the pre-COVID trends. Well, the young never really left it. For those 65+ years

Linkfest 2021-08-06: Twilight of Democracy

The Long View: The Twilight of Democracy John J. Reilly’s 1997 review of Patrick E. Kennon’s The Twilight of Democracy is a fascinating read twenty four years later. Some version of Kennon’s point of view is still hugely important in how the United States is run, and

Linkfest 2021-07-23

First Things: Catholic Ideas and Catholic Realities Ross Douthat surveys the field of American Catholicism and identifies all the major players. You can’t know what’s going on without a list of dramatis personae and their alliances. DarwinCatholic: No, COVID Vaccines Are Not Causing First Trimester Babies to Miscarry

Linkfest 2021-07-09: When Orcs Were Real

Tree of Woe: When Orcs were Real A contrarian view of the interaction between humans and Neanderthals. Danny Vendramini in his book Them and Us: How Neanderthal Predation Created Modern Humans makes some extremely speculative claims that Neanderthals were monsters of myth and legend. As the comments make clear, this

Linkfest 2021-06-18: Picking something up on Sensors

Claremont Review of Books: There Goes Robert E. Lee I’ve never liked the casual dismissal of Lee as nothing but a traitor, and Christopher Caldwell puts this into far better words than I ever could. Methods & Madness: The individualism of modern D&D I’m not the