Monthly Archives: June 2024

Leaving The Fold

Posted on June 7, 2024 by Luke Ford

I just renewed my subscription to NYBooks. It is such a gorgeous publication. From NYBooks.com: All religious autobiography hinges on a drama of escape. The convert speaks from a vantage of liberation, having been freed from the shackles of sin, … Continue reading →

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Decoding Joe Biden (6-5-24)

Posted on June 6, 2024 by Luke Ford

01:00 In which room and in which clothes do you watch this show?03:00 New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion, and America’s Struggle to Defend the West,https://www.amazon.com/New-Cold-Wars-Invasion-Americas/dp/059344359413:00 Stephen Walt: Biden’s Foreign Policy Problem Is Incompetence, https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/06/04/biden-foreign-policy-gaza-ukraine-foreign-policy-incompetence/20:00 Shut Up Joe Biden, … Continue reading →

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New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion, and America’s Struggle to Defend the West

Posted on June 6, 2024 by Luke Ford

David Sanger writes: It was classic Biden: He inserted himself into a complex dispute half a world away, convinced that his long experience in diplomacy and personal touch could make a difference. Like a hostage negotiator, Biden was trying to … Continue reading →

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NYRB: In the Renaissance, reading became both a passion and a pose of detachment

Posted on June 6, 2024 by Luke Ford

Catherine Nicholson writes: In A Marvelous Solitude, her new book on Renaissance humanists’ romance with reading, the Italian scholar Lina Bolzoni channels the allure, for Petrarch and those who came after him, of a life in books, its pleasures “more … Continue reading →

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The Tower and the Sewer

Posted on June 6, 2024 by Luke Ford

Mark Lilla writes: Catholic postliberal thinkers opposed to modern liberal individualism are less interested in transforming people’s unhappy lives through the power of the gospel than in jockeying for political power as the vanguard of a conservative revolution… It has … Continue reading →

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