Wednesday, March 31, 2021
Monday, March 29, 2021
Lowe's to offer free gardens-to-go kits every Thursday beginning April 8
Register at Lowes.com starting April 1
https://www.abc15.com/news/national/lowes-to-offer-free-gardens-to-go-kits-every-thursday-beginning-april-8?fbclid=IwAR0DDRmqiv3i2-BVPyZRZoOklqCeSfbDSzB6Y7wnZBayLWzXmDpZhn9B7uY
Sunday, March 28, 2021
JOURNAL ARTICLE A Reassessment of Benjamin Disraeli's Jewish Aspects
After his death several reports appeared in the press that Disraeli died a Catholic and received the last rites from a priest, although these reports were denied by Corry. Other reports claimed that he invited a Rabbi to attend his funeral
Saturday, March 27, 2021
Friday, March 26, 2021
Shakespeare, Identity and Religion
Emeritus Professor of Law at University College, Oxford and Professor at the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, USA.
Duration: 24min 59sec
Thursday, March 25, 2021
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
Von Diaz’s Puerto Rican Recipes Sam Sifton SAM SIFTON
The journalist, historian and cookbook author Von Diaz brought together her essential Puerto Rican recipes for us this week, dishes that she calls foundational to her understanding of flavor, “a culinary mejunje, or mix, of Indigenous, African, Spanish and American ingredients and techniques.” |
Her essay on the subject is itself essential reading, and I think you’ll want to get into the recipes in your kitchen this week, building on her sazón and sofrito to make all manner of deliciousness. |
You might start with pollo en fricasé, braised chicken thighs in a rich, oniony, tomato-based sauce with garlic, white wine and vinegar, set off by briny olives and capers. Or sancocho, the rustic stew you can make with root vegetables and just about any meat. Or, if you’re feeling celebratory, you might try your hand at pernil (above), the crackly-tender roast pork that is probably the best-known dish of the Puerto Rican diaspora. |
Von has a beautiful recipe for pescado frito, whole red snapper marinated in adobo, then fried and served with tostones, avocado salad and white rice. And another one for yuca con mojo, boiled yuca doused in a garlic-and-citrus mojo dressing, her grandmother’s recipe. |
Offshore Core James Hankins
There are now many such foundations across the country, including the Morningside Institute near Columbia, the Elm Institute at Yale, the Abigail Adams Institute at Harvard, the Berkeley Institute at UC Berkeley, and the Zephryr Institute at Stanford. These institutes present themselves as non-political and non-religious but welcome students with religious convictions or unorthodox political views. The Foundation for Excellence in Higher Education currently provides support for 21 entities of this type.
Tuesday, March 23, 2021
The Martyrs of the English Reformation
One of the more convincing conclusions, however, made by John Finnis and Patrick Martin in their essay “Another Turn for the Turtle” suggests that it refers to the real life couple Anne and Roger Line, he being exiled and she martyred for their Catholic beliefs.165 As Finnis and Martin rightly conclude, “the invocation to a requiem suggests a Catholic rite” (12), and the poem’s final line, calling the reader to “sigh a prayer” for the dead, “emphasizes the poem’s detachment from the official reformed Church’s rejection of all prayer or intercession for the dead.” They agree that the allegory is “more reticent, artificed, opaque and resonant than [their] discussion may suggest [because] it makes no display of Catholic belief, or even of common Christian hope for life beyond death” (13), but they also bolster their argument by reading the poem alongside scenes from The Merchant of Venice and Titus Andronicus.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1517&context=gc_etds
Monday, March 22, 2021
Sunday, March 21, 2021
Saturday, March 20, 2021
Friday, March 19, 2021
Why Sexual Morality May be Far More Important than You Ever Thought -- Unwin's "Sex and Culture"
"His writings suggest he was a rationalist, believing that science is our ultimate tool of inquiry (it appears he was not a religious man). As I went through what he found, I was repeatedly reminded of the thought I had as a philosophy student: some moral laws may be designed to minimize human suffering and maximize human flourishing long term.
"Unwin examines the data from 86 societies and civilizations to see if there is a relationship between sexual freedom and the flourishing of cultures. What makes the book especially interesting is that we in the West underwent a sexual revolution in the late 1960’s, 70’s, and 80’s and are now in a position to test the conclusions he arrived at more than 40 years earlier."
Thursday, March 18, 2021
The Greatest Historical Miracle You’ve Never Heard Of--Julian the Apostate
For Julian, persecution, oppression, and financial extortion of Christians weren’t enough. In the second year of his reign, in 362, he conceived an extraordinary plan to undermine the credibility of Jesus Christ by annulling one of his prophecies.
https://catholicexchange.com/greatest-historical-miracle-youve-never-heard
Wednesday, March 17, 2021
Tuesday, March 16, 2021
From Eyesore to Opportunity: Rochester’s Powers Building
The building’s most notorious would-be developer was Thomas Termotto, an investment broker who preceded Miller in the mid-1980s and pledged to spend $15 million on renovations. He was unable to obtain the funding and fled the area without notice. He was later prosecuted for securities fraud related to other failed ventures.
https://rbj.net/2011/06/10/powers-building-work-stands-test-of-time/
Monday, March 15, 2021
Sunday, March 14, 2021
Hume
Hume’s moral philosophy is found primarily in Book 3 of The Treatise of Human Nature and his Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals, although further context and explanation of certain concepts discussed in those works can also be found in his Essays Moral, Political, and Literary. This article discusses each of the topics outlined above, with special attention given to the arguments he develops in the Treatise.
Saturday, March 13, 2021
Friday, March 12, 2021
Yes, your boss can fire you if you refuse to get a Covid vaccine
Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, if taking the vaccine is a violation of a “sincerely held” religious belief, they, too, would potentially be able to opt out.
Thursday, March 11, 2021
The Way of Love: Dorothy Day and the American Right
“The Communists,” she said, sought to build “a sense of the sacredness and holiness and the dignity of the machine and of work, in order to content the proletariat with their propertyless state.” So why, she asked, “do we talk of fighting communism, which we are supposed to oppose because it does away with private property? We have done that very well ourselves in this country.”
World War II destroyed agrarianism as an active force in American intellectual life — just as it fortified the urban citadels of power and money.
Wednesday, March 10, 2021
Tuesday, March 9, 2021
Divorce versus Democracy. York Books: XXI, Continuity Tracts. CHESTERTON, G.K. (1874-1936).
An article originally published in Nash's Magazine, in which Chesterton contends that a bill to make divorce more widely available to the general population would actually be an undemocratic development which would give the rich elite yet more control over the lives of working families.
Monday, March 8, 2021
Sunday, March 7, 2021
Saturday, March 6, 2021
Friday, March 5, 2021
Wednesday, March 3, 2021
Sergey Nechayev
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Nechayev
https://www.marxists.org/subject/anarchism/nechayev/catechism.htm
Catechism of a Revolutionist had a great influence on radical young students throughout Europe. In August, 1869, Nechayev returned to Russia and settled in Moscow where he set up a secret terrorist organization, People's Retribution. When one of its members, Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov, questioned Nechayev's political ideas, he murdered him. The body was weighted down with stones and dumped through an ice hole in a nearby pond. He told the rest of the group, "the ends justify the means".
