Thanks to the eclectic aggregation services provided by my social media comrades (and others), I read a lot of good and bad prose. Here’s a selection of the best articles and posts I’ve seen this week:
In A Requiem to an Age of Brilliant Polish Poetry, Ruth Franklin celebrates the life and worth of Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska (1923-2012).
Jeffrey Sachs writes a fine piece on the appeal, context and dangers of libertarian politics.
If you’re interested in New Testament studies, or Barthian theology, you might like this review essay by Martin Bird.
Following John Piper’s recent assertion that God has given Christianity a “masculine feel,” many people have expressed the view that he’s gone too far this time. Three of the most thoughtful and damning responses so far have been by Rachel Held Evans, Christian Piatt, and Kristina Robb-Dover.
And if you’re thinking that this post is getting altogether too theological, you might like to read Kathleen McAuliffe’s piece, How Your Cat is Making You Crazy, on Jaroslav Flegr’s theory about the deleterious effects of a certain parasite found in cat faeces.
Oh, and The New Yorker does indeed fact-check its cartoons.
And finally, on a lighter note, here’s that clip of a British TV host losing control while pronouncing a German athlete’s name.
