Top 5: Politics worse than death
And liberalism and free speech
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The top 5 articles for your week:
“A Politics Worse Than Death” (Breaking Ground)
Because this is my latest essay, and it’s on how our politics has failed to rise to even death, and how Christians ought to think about death themselves. I hope you’ll read this: definitely my most extended writing on this political moment this year.
“A Letter on Justice and Open Debate” (Harper’s Magazine)
Because we can’t and shouldn’t ignore this week’s most controversial piece of writing, one that sent Twitter into a tizzy and inspired many a think piece. The letter takes on free speech and cancel culture, and it is signed by a myriad of thinkers and influencers from the Left to the Right and in various vocations and fields.
“The Willful Blindness of Reactionary Liberalism” (The New Republic)
Because you should chase the Harper’s letter with this from Osita Nwanevu on liberalism and illiberalism.
“Bad Traditionalism” (Commonweal Magazine)
Because we often love Tara Isabella Burton’s essays, and this one contends with her winding path to Catholicism and her experience with traditionalism.
“These 8 Basic Steps Will Let Us Reopen Schools” (The Atlantic)
Because this list of comprehensive steps — recommended by two former secretaries of education and a former director of the CDC — are good and sensible, but the real question we have is this: does every school district have these capacities? Does every school in a low-income neighborhood have these luxuries, these resources?