This analysis from Bethel McGrew on party politics and abortion is genuinely great: razor-sharp, unusually attentive, erudite.
Good heavens, I loved this conversation with Vinson Cunningham on Know Your Enemy.
Good day. My book was the campus read for Stevens Institute of Technology, and I gave the convocation address. Students were absolutely delightful, river view incredible.
First day of high school for all three — the only year they’ll all be together again. 💔
Long ago, when I was getting almost-a-phd in history, an advisor told me that I had the inconvenient problem of being interested in absolutely everything. Never a truer thing said.
This conversation with Fordham president Tania Tetlow is great.
LOVED this conversation on Genesis between Marilynne Robinson and Miroslav Volf.
A beautiful thing to see Ted Gioia’s report on live music ticket sales just booming, including at the jazz club around the corner from my building! substack.com/home/post…
I gathered my higher ed posts into an excerpted new newsletter: Unmuddling the University.
I wrote the last in my series on thinking through higher ed. I’ll also summarize it in a newsletter, but here are Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.
I wrote about how people who work in “special needs” assistance have skills that are orthogonal to credentials and training: sarahendren.com/2024/08/2…
Thrilled that I have (late to the party) discovered Dumbify and similar apps.
above is free: sarahendren.com/2024/08/2…
I do love an elder statesman on a crowded city bus — the guy confidently barking move on back.
I find Elizabeth Oldfield’s “micro monastery” residential arrangement so attractive. A rule of life, shared prayers, hospitality and support outside the nuclear family, all of it in the city of London: faith.yale.edu/media/ful…
Can folks recommend some YA nonfiction about 20th century history? I find the offerings in our local bookstores thin. My 14 yo son loved the YA version of Unbroken, for ex, and we just read Escape from Camp 14 together, which is also what I’m looking for — very accessible but not formally YA.
(related?): I really don’t spend time being the language police, and I don’t intend to start. But I do cringe at the use of “-‘tard” as a name-ending for all the stupidities folks despise about their political and culture war enemies.
Colin Farrell is opening up a foundation on the future of housing, work, thriving for people with intellectual disabilities. Impossible to be unmoved by this: youtu.be/JDiD8Z3lW…
Soon I’ll finish William Trevor’s The Story of Lucy Gault, but I picked up Michael Crummey’s The Adversary at the library and got hooked right away!
My 16 yr old daughter is perfecting the art of parallel parking — yes, right away. Essential for this family in Boston, esp since we’ve never had a driveway. My kids’ll be able to drive anywhere after learning in this dense urbanism.