Weekend project: building new beds for the boys. All that remains is to add a bed skirt to cover up those screws. 🔨
Morgan Meis on a highly questionable paraphrase of Auden in the NYT: “We must assist one another or die”?
Ahhh… back in the outdoor office at last.
R.I.P., Lee Konitz.
Here’s jazz pianist Ethan Iverson’s tribute to Konitz, insightful as always.
A sure way to establish enduring significance as a thinker is to combine sophistication with carefully constructed ambiguity and, if necessary, outright contradiction.
~ “Can Schmitt’s Political Theology Be Redeemed?”
(But it depends on how you define enduring.)
Today (Mon 6 Apr) at noon CST: “Christian Ethics & Pandemic Ethics”.
My colleague Pilar’s 86-year-old father has been hospitalized with covid-19 in Spain.
His last wish is to find a friend of his from Folkstone, Kent, England. I’m posting an article about his search here just in case anyone can help.
A stunning New York Times photo-essay on how coronavirus has devastated Bergamo, Italy.
In high school, my family hosted an Italian exchange student. His hometown? Bergamo. I never imagined it would return to my mind, or enter the global consciousness, in such a tragic way. 🔗
How Texas supermarket chain H-E-B has prepared better than just about anyone for the pandemic. 🔗
Probably also been reading some Taleb. 📚
I sense a lucrative consulting career in the near future for Justen Noakes, H-E-B’s “director of emergency preparedness.” 💰💰💰
A profound, honest reflection on COVID-19 and our mortality. Written for Leonard J. DeLorenzo’s students at Notre Dame, but applicable to all:
The call in this season is to throw off the illusion of invulnerability and live together in truth.