“I am 100% sure I am not a genius, but at the same time, I am 100% sure I am not a fool.” — Carlo Ancelotti. I’m thinking of adopting this as my motto.
Still slightly vibrating from that 🇦🇷 - 🇨🇻 match last night — one of the best I’ve ever seen. Cape Verde were magnificent: organized, disciplined, and utterly fearless. They came not to cower in a low block but to defend aggressively and take their chances. Wonderful stuff. ⚽️
To the tune of “Gilligan’s Island”:
Now sit right down and you’ll hear a tale
A tale of a rampant seal
Who’s damaging this coastal town
A hooligan named Neil
(via Adam Roberts)
In which I make a mighty vow: I pledge my blogging, my linking, and my sacred honour to the open web.
A few years ago I decided to stop intervening in intra-Christian debates. I am not sure whether I regret having been involved in them, but certainly nothing I wrote had any effect whatever on the course of events, so the only good my writing ever did was to clarify my own thinking. Still, some of those interventions still seem (to me) relevant:
- On the relationship between credal orthodoxy and questions of sexuality I wrote this.
- On the regular complaint that “this shouldn’t even be a question” I wrote this.
- On who should or should not be admitted to the sacraments I wrote this and this.
- On the concept of “false teachers” I wrote this.
- On “equipping the saints” I wrote this.
- I wrote a whole series of posts on Christians and “critical theory”: here’s the tag.
I’m not recommending these so much as reminding myself that I wrote them!
BTW, the two CBC documentaries on Gould that I mention in that essay are available on YouTube: Glenn Gould: Off the Record and Glenn Gould: On the Record. They’re fascinating.
The Fading Promise of Higher Education is the theme of this excellent new issue of the Hedgehog Review. I don’t have anything in the issue on that important theme, but I did write a reflection on hearing Glenn Gould — on the 70th anniversary of his breakthrough recording of the Goldberg Variations.
P.S. That essay may be paywalled — if so, my regrets.
The Economist’s obituary for Alan Greenspan is a small masterpiece.
Confluence
