Category Archives: Daily Links and Notes

The Dish 

http://pippabiddle.com/2014/02/18/the-problem-with-little-white-girls-and-boys/ The the follow up posting Her observation in the initial post is of course not an unfamiliar one to folks with long term foreign missions experience like myself. The “value” she had was her relational connections with wealthy North … Continue reading →

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/20/fashion/lwren-scott-remembered-by-cathy-horyn.html  

Nice Video from the Atlantic

HT Dreher http://cosmostheinlost.com/2014/03/19/walker-percy-college-dorm-arguments-sagan-degrasse-tyson/ Direct link to cspan video of Percy speaking “Show me a man with his needs satisfied, and I’ll show you a man in serious trouble.” Dyadic vs triadic events around minute 32. C.S. Pierce

The New Yorker

London Review of Books HT the Dish If the meat industry looks ugly now, it is nothing to what it might be like if and when India and China catch up with the levels of meat consumption in the West. One … Continue reading →

Was Nietzsche Right about Religion? Awkwardly, Nietzsche pointed out that liberal values derive from Jewish and Christian monotheism, and rejected these values for that very reason. There is no basis – whether in logic or history – for the prevailing notion … Continue reading →

Link following Christian Smith too.