In response to Freddie deBoer’s latest, I wrote about the paradoxes of disability — an offering especially to you fellow teachers and caregivers of young people in our weird age.
Theologians and ministers of Micro who will administer ashes next week: What do you teach about leaving ashes on one’s head for the day? In college, I was taught by a priest to wipe them away: “when you pray, pray in secret,” etc. But I usually see folks marked for the day every year.
Always be reading @ayjay: “How often do we think, perhaps in some unacknowledged place deep inside our minds and hearts, that when we come to church and say the appointed words and perform the correct actions, we are somehow… sarahendren.com/2025/02/2…
This podcast treatment of USAID — history, context, various critiques — is really well done.
I thought this review of Samantha Harvey’s Orbital got it right. And Metropolitan Review looks promising all around!
Looking forward to joining the good people of UF’s Christian Study Center in a couple weeks for two lectures on disability and the virtues of dependence.
Anthony Galluzzo explains the oddly united forms of “biotechnological Prometheanism” on left and right.
San Miguel chapel, the oldest church structure in the US, Santa Fe.
Jack Goldsmith writes another very reasoned and helpful history of the unitary executive theory.
We’ve reached the melodrama stage of winter in New England. Summer has never existed! I have never been warm and never will be again!
“Our intellectual errors are often, although not always, rooted in our moral errors. For both types of mistake the best protections… sarahendren.com/2025/02/1…
My short film Simple Machine will run in three festivals this year, and counting! We have worked and reworked it; gratifying to anticipate it going out further into the world.
Anyone else learn to draw flapping foreshortened flags from Mark Kistler on PBS in the 80s? This was a lovely memory.
This particular Chang and French exchange is especially good.
Saw and heard the stunning soprano Joélle Harvey yesterday, two Handel cantatas at the Jordan Hall jewel box. We’re spoiled in Boston.
What a beautifully lucid walk-through of Pieper’s Leisure, the Basis of Culture by Therese Cory.
I don’t do a lot of academic publishing, but it was gratifying to think through Howard Gardner’s “fruitful asynchrony” idea in creativity studies alongside my own “disposition, language, house” framework for the maker-thinker: intellectdiscover.com/content/j…
Fantastic conversation with Nicolay Boyadjiev of Re-Arc Institute on a “paraphilanthropic” approach to humanitarian architecture, public-private partnerships, innovative contracts, and more: scratchingthesurface.fm/263-nicol…
An evergreen topic: design public spaces for children! sarahendren.com/2025/02/0…
My friend Jack Goldsmith and his colleague Bob Bauer are doing us all a favor, explaining and historicizing presidential power with the Executive Functions newsletter.