Welcome to my weekly digest for October 14, 2022. For new subscribers, this contains a roundup of my recent writings and podcasts, as well as links to the best articles from around the web this week. You can control what emails you get from me by
Picking up on the “Evangelicalism, Elites and Excellence” video discussion - I agree that Evangelicals generally do not promote excellence and ambition, but how do you account for Joel Osteen? His message seems designed to inspire Christians to achieve lofty goals in the world and he has a massive following. Could there be something to tap into there?
Meanwhile, on the Masculinist front: Matthew Schmitz's review of Erika Bachiochi's book seems to have been received about as well as might have been expected.
Certainly we should all have been paying more attention to Neil Postman, but I could not help but hear Saruman speaking to Gandalf while reading the end of that Compact article.
Picking up on the “Evangelicalism, Elites and Excellence” video discussion - I agree that Evangelicals generally do not promote excellence and ambition, but how do you account for Joel Osteen? His message seems designed to inspire Christians to achieve lofty goals in the world and he has a massive following. Could there be something to tap into there?
Meanwhile, on the Masculinist front: Matthew Schmitz's review of Erika Bachiochi's book seems to have been received about as well as might have been expected.
https://www.firstthings.com/article/2022/11/the-wrongs-of-woman
https://twitter.com/jennfrey/status/1581095460890378240
https://twitter.com/erikabachiochi/status/1581063085682397184
This is what happens when you try to be critical of women in the same way that one is commonly critical of men.
Note that these aren't 'crazy feminist types' angry at Schmitz, but Catholic academic women.
Certainly we should all have been paying more attention to Neil Postman, but I could not help but hear Saruman speaking to Gandalf while reading the end of that Compact article.