Journalist | Editor @Plough | @theBruderhof member | @PittTweet Grad | hopelessly optimistic @ManUtd fan
Walden, NY
Joined February 2019
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LIFE returns to print 11.23.26.
Read our Editors’ Letter and learn more about the new LIFE here: new.life.com
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"...I should warn you that it is not uncommon to begin your spiritual journey convinced that the good life is only to be found in Christ, only to drift away over time as work and the market chip away at your moral imagination." plough.com/articles/what-the… via @TheAlanNoble & @Plough
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Three hundred years ago today, Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels was published anonymously in London.
In a May essay for @Plough , Henry Oliver explores how Swift’s humor darkens. What begins as hilarious mockery of political and religious quarrels ends with a disturbing portrait of cruelty disguised as reason.
Jonathan Swift’s Frustrated Humor
On the three-hundredth anniversary of Gulliver’s Travels, Swift’s satire of his own society is remarkably relevant.
plough.com/articles/jonathan…
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"We're very excited, we're very proud of him."
@brookechesney talked with the Dominican Sisters who spent time teaching Jared Goff at Marin Catholic High School.
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“It’s a joyful thing to receive some proper post through the letterbox! Every page is carefully put together - each issue is packed with poetry, visual art, thoughtfully curated essays, interviews and reviews. And to top it all off - there is not an advert in sight. I love receiving my quarterly issue, and slowly dipping into it over the subsequent weeks.” —Peter Burton
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“Everyone agrees that *The Prisoner* (1967), the unclassifiable British television show that Criterion recently added to its streaming collection, is an allegory. But of what? If you watched it in 1967, unaware that you’re enjoying a soon-to-be cult classic, a singularity in its medium, you’d probably place it as a spy show. Or perhaps you’d view it as spy-fi, that subgenre of the spy thriller defined mostly by the fact that the spy’s gadgets are all absolutely sick and the film stock has the colors of a childhood dream.” —Phil Christman
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Good luck to the committed Carrick this weekend. But this #mufc regime are worse than Woodward's. Not the first time they've lost their nerve when it comes to a necessary change of manager and the incompetence is rather breathtaking now. Or they're looking after themselves.
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“@orthodoxmason doesn’t see the path from his education in theology and music to his masonry work as a rupture. Rather, what he does now is a continuation of what he learned. His grasp of the language of music has passed over into his understanding of architecture.” @koppsch_a
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Christopher Zimmerman and @RobertEllsberg discuss Saint Francis on the 800th anniversary of his death: ploughstack.substack.com/p/s…
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I reviewed @marwa_alsabouni’s ‘Mosque’ for @Plough: “Al-Sabouni’s architectural expertise alone makes for a riveting read. But it’s the sincerity, vulnerability, zealous curiosity, & deep perceptiveness with which she writes that makes Mosque a true gem." ⬇️
@thamesandhudson
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“The modern writer is not obliged to go to the trouble of writing clearly and thoughtfully, Orwell says. You can surrender to the ease of ‘throwing your mind open and letting the ready-made phrases come crowding in. They will construct your sentences for you – even think your thoughts for you, to a certain extent – and at need they will perform the important service of partially concealing your meaning even from yourself.’ If this was true of the age of mass media, it is even truer in an age where AI can sever writing from conscious thought altogether.” —Ryan McCormick
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New from me @Plough - 'The Quiet Glory of Potsherds'.
On Rome, the Apostle Paul, and true human glory.
plough.com/articles/the-quie…
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Saint Francis at Eight Hundred – A Conversation with @RobertEllsberg
Read the latest PloughStack: ploughstack.substack.com/p/s…
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🚨 | The Glazers are waiting for the right TIME to cash in and sell their #mufc shares.
The failed European Super League denied them an obvious opportunity to sell, but one source has identified two other potential triggers for a sale:
- The construction of a new stadium, which would increase the club's value
- The prospect of Man City being expelled from the #PL, leaving a major rival out of the race for major trophies 👀
[@MarkOgden_]
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“Eliot’s running commentary explains, admonishes, predicts, praises, rebukes, and excuses with a wit so gentle and a charity so unfailing that her voice might be said to float like a butterfly and rouse her readers not with a sting but with a light, affectionate nudge.” —George Scialabba
plough.com/articles/the-mora…
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A good day to repost my essay about life as a United fan in the era of relentless mediocrity. I suspect there will be other occasions before too long... @the_point_mag thepointmag.com/examined-lif…
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I dedicate this to Jose Mourinho
youtu.be/kiW-QnQzN9Y?si=9WDR…
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Very grateful for this thoughtful review of Resisting Therapy Culture from @Plough : plough.com/articles/the-peri…
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John J. Lennon's latest book is both a critique of and a major contribution to true-crime literature, writes Phil Christman.
hedgehogreview.com/web-featu…
