Catastrophic tactical error by Southgate: After an Arsenal legend scored for France, he brought off his Arsenal man. Everyone knows that only Arsenal can defeat Arsenal. ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ ๐ซ๐ท โฝ๏ธ
NYT: โAs weird as the story [Pinocchio] is, itโs been made all the stranger by the decision to turn it into a metaphor about fascism, a conceit that is as politically incoherent as it is unfortunately timed.โ A movie's not โa metaphor about fascismโ when it actually has fascists in it (including Mussolini himself).ย
Leo Strauss and the Closed Society by Matthew Rose | Articles | First Things:
Strauss was not the only thinker who turned to questions of education in the darkest days of the war. A few months later, Jacques Maritain delivered the Terry Lectures at Yale, calling for the renewal of the modern university through a rediscovery of Christian philosophy. Maritain was joined by T. S. Eliot, Simone Weil, C. S. Lewis, and Dorothy Sayers, whose wartime reflections on education gave voice to religious ideas that would succeed in inspiring postwar democratic movements, if not postwar universities.ย
Fascinating! Someone should write a book about all that.ย
The Struggle To Be Human - by Ian Leslie - The Ruffian:
Whether itโs music, movies or politics, we seem to be creating a world more amenable to AI by erasing more and more of what makes us, us. Even if we think we have got the better of this deal up until now, we shouldnโt assume we always will. A little resistance is prudent. The bar for being human has just been raised; the first thing we should do is stop lowering it.
The link in the previous post goes to a current Penguin edition, but Iโm reading the copy I bought and read 40 years ago (but have since mostly forgotten).
Currently reading: In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin ๐
In my experience โ and I do have some experience with this phenomenon โ when a journalistic outlet responds to criticism by saying โWe stand by our story,โ that always means that (a) they know they have been caught red-handed in either dishonesty or incompetence, (b) they cannot stage a proper defense of their work, but (c) they are unwilling to confess their shortcomings.ย
Whaddya mean that’s not a word? It’s my gamer handle!
