milk and honey

Civility I’ve been watching “Jeopardy Masters.”

Damon Linker: Beginning with September 11, we entered an era shaped decisively by militant populism and disruption.

This will make you happy.

Damon Linker Every day this know-nothing lunatic remains in the presidency is a day during which the country, and the world, tempts … terrible fates.

Eccentricity Crisis Sam Buntz Through its educational priorities and excessive fixation on the quantifiable, the U.S. only supports forms of eccentricity that lend themselves to some immediately definable commercial goal, while neglecting any that have to…

Real Genius Talent hits a target no one else can hit.

Saruman or Adrian Vermeule?

Difficult on purpose Jonah Goldberg: For obvious reasons, I don’t trust Trump with unchecked power.

Real Casualties Isabella Gonzales, a 19-year-old Army private from a Dallas suburb, was one of the three U.S. service personnel killed over the weekend because of Donald Trump’s lack of impulse control.

Messi notwithstanding, this is just terrible.

“Well, that didn’t work.

Why am I not surprised?

The Great Photography of Gordon Parks Via Colossal

World Cup Especially for England (but for France, too), having to play a stupid 3rd-place game amounts to cruel and unusual punishment.

Pedro Porro!

Only Too True ‘Now, Julian, we don’t want a sermon,’ said Winifred.

Skill nostalgia or Necessary Calibration?

Subsidiarity and Repair Too many essays about [name your American institution (in this essay, it was scouting)] end with the same refrain: It isn’t what it used to be, so I’m leaving.

Two from Cataggio ... imagining an idealized America that never actually existed and then getting mad that modern America doesn’t look more like it is basically Populism 101.

Archie through the grass

Finished reading Nonesuch by Francis Spufford.

from Colossal Animals and Ornament Emerge from Felted Wool in Holly Guertin’s Textiles

No voice, but I removed my shoes just in case

RIP, Robert Coles Here’s a sweet remembrance of Robert Coles, one of America’s great champions of children, written by one of my favorite photographers, Alex Harris.

King Harvest