Journals of Father Alexander Schmemann, The Founded in 1968, St Vladimir's Seminary Press is the largest and most active publisher of Orthodox Christian books in the English language.

The references to him in Fr. Schmemann’s journals hint at exactly that. Schmemann was no lib but in their meetings he could see where AS was trending. svspress.com/journals-of-...

Googling ‘big chunky hunk’ could skew your algorithm in possibly unsavory ways, just sayin~

Isn’t being part of a tiny major a great way to avoid being part of an “echo chamber”? (& maybe harder to avoid in Econ w/ 934 majors.) It’s ironic that these and other tiny majors are often blamed for campus climate problems and are being shut down or downsized at universities around the country.

Yet another screaming example of an elephant the folks at The Bulwark, other Never Trumpers must face: what of the Roberts Court & how it has radically changed society & jurisprudential norms.

Might be a good question for @madoc.bsky.social when he next logs in (or ask him on Twitter…)

Definitely time to revisit Blood Meridian

Between Two Rivers YouTube video by Nick Jordan

Thanks for paying attention to Cairo—have always liked this documentary on its decline www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ita4...

There is a very common, if false belief that pretty much anyone can get citizenship if they're in the country for long enough. Unfortunately, most people who are undocumented have NO path to permanent legal status.

And in her case, the old removal order (which was withheld) makes it even harder.

Barrera said her husband said the smell of human feces in the toilet caused a fellow detainee to vomit and, in turn, created a chain of people vomiting. She said her husband is asthmatic and has not received medication to treat his condition. The lack of medicine and the stress of the overcrowded holding cell has left him short of breath and teetering on the edge of an asthma attack, Barrera said. ICE did not immediately respond to questions on April 10 about the conditions of the Mesa or Phoenix facilities. After the publication of this article, Barrera told The Arizona Republic her husband was transferred to the ICE facility at San Luis Regional Detention Center at about midnight. The San Luis Regional Detention Center is in Southwestern Arizona and has the capacity to hold 700 people.

This is horrific. A U.S. citizen describes the facility in Arizona that her husband was brought to while he waited to be put on a deportation flight. Dozens of people were crammed into tiny cells, there was a "chain of people vomiting" from filthy toilets, no medical care, and only one meal per day.

P. Sorrentino, La grande bellezza - My heart's in the Highlands (Arvo Pärt) YouTube video by Fabrizio Basciano

One more—really does make you want to walk endlessly in the city. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ1Y...

The Great Beauty exclusive clip #3 YouTube video by Curzon

youtu.be/kaZRwE07P-o

Btw re Rome recommendations: if time, by all means see Paolo Sorrentino’s gorgeous film The Great Beauty—so many scenes strolling through the city, seeing deeply. youtu.be/d5fT3vaJE5k

piloncillo!

What's Your Heaven? - Kenneth Lonergan's YOU CAN COUNT ON ME (2000) YouTube video by Chris Spencer

Thanks for the recommendation—was reminded of this scene from You Can Count on Me: Lonergan’s questions, Ruffalo’s consideration. Thoughtful film~ youtu.be/ke68ihE-Vj8

At least the photo brings Beetlejuice to mind

And she has since been deported.

Link here:

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when Obama negotiated the JCPOA, I'd felt optimistic that within ~20 years I'd see Persepolis, Naqsh-e Jahan Square, and the Nasir al-Molk Mosque, and now I just hope they survive undamaged

none of this madness had to happen.
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Btw thread nicely unrolled here: skywriter.blue/@eliothiggin...

@volts.wtf @samuel-bagg.bsky.social This long thread is *exactly what you were discussing on the pod in December. “Contractive counterpublics” seems a fruitful category to describe eg evangelical/conservative subculture, which is why it’s so hard to reach across that epistemic & axiological divide.

This 💯 describes US evangelical subculture btw: contractive (defining selves as clean & good vs ‘the world’ which is sadly in error) counterpublic (big majority of relationships & epistemic sources come from within the evangelical/conservative sphere: nothing else is trustworthy).

It is absolute demagoguery to say that a foreign student took anyone's spot. Foreign students have enriched and, bluntly, funded U.S. universities. Those universities will be less successful and less desirable as a result of this rank protectionism.

being able to sit patiently with other people's thoughts, sit patiently with your own, and make both of those processes legible to someone who is not you is very valuable. if you can find a new way to do this that is fantastic news but I suspect it will at least resemble the model we've inherited

David Simon said it best

They would prob insist it’s the other way around, culture war the handmaiden of Christian faith. But that wasn’t really true before late 70s outside of southern fundamentalism. Worth looking at other examples too (Franco’s Spain is instructive).

People who work at this magazine think it's interesting or counterintuitive or whatever to blame the left for what the right is doing, but when *every single article* posits the same thesis you're not challenging your readers, you are coddling them.

With Douthat (as with Dreher as with David French? Russell Moore? or so many formed from 1980-), inconceivable that Christianity could *not be a handmaiden to culture war conservatism. Decoupling those things would yield who knows what…

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