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Some things worth reading #1: John Schwenkler on Elizabeth Anscombe:
commonwealmagazine.org/untempted-cons…
#2: Alan Jacobs on Pauline Kael and Citizen Kane:
lithub.com/raising-kael-o…
#3: Scott Sumner on progress:
themoneyillusion.com/give-thanks-fo…
#4: Jamie Lauren Keiles on Adam Sandler:
nytimes.com/2019/11/27/mag…
#5: Elizabeth Bruenig on the Virgin and the Magdalen in the Middle Ages and the Reformation:
nybooks.com/articles/2019/…
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Quick thread on this big @annalouiesuss essay in our Sunday pages and some of the rejoinders from my friends on the right.
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Two thoughts on this from the always engaging @semiduplex. 1) There is no question that many of the developments of the Francis era were anticipated in the internal contradictions and often-papered-over tensions of the attempted John Paul II synthesis.
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