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I wrote an update for my Buy Me a Coffee supporters. 

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I wrote about what we might call the Re-enchantment Movement.

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I’m probably going to regret this, but I’ve enabled crossposting from micro.blog — Home of the Truly Cool — to Bluesky. I won’t be be otherwise present. Advertisements for myself will begin immediately.

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A bookplate designed by M. C. Escher

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The Economist: “New work led by Roza Kamiloglu, a psychologist at the Free University of Amsterdam, provides evidence that there are just two primary types of laughter: one generated when people find something funny and one that can be induced only through the physical act of tickling.” I’m laughing about this, but only because I’m currently being tickled.

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Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858), Ferry on the Fuji River. Colour-woodblock print, about 1832

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Here’s a fabulous three-song set by Gillian Welch and David Rawlings.

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My colleague Philip Jenkins settles a few persistent myths about the Council of Nicaea. It’s one of those events about which people always feel free to tell Big Lies.

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Charles Thurston Thompson, Side view of packing case and horse-drawn ‘van’ for transport of Raphael Cartoons from Hampton Court to South Kensington Museum, 1865. The South Kensington Museum is now of course the V&A.

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In which I recommend a lovely new novel. 📚