Welcome to my weekly digest for March 3, 2023. 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
Interestingly, David Brooks at Yale / NYT, says that he now sees his students taking on religion with more openness and respect than say 15 years ago. He says, back then religion at Yale was like “bad acne.”
I wonder if the “bad acne” stage led to the negative world among adults. If so, maybe the openness of student today will lead to a more open world tomorrow.
(Reference to a podcast “David Brooks on your, morality and loneliness (Live at Mason) - Conversations with Tyler”
With such divergent worldviews, I wonder if the mental health chart would look mostly the same measured by church attendance. I'm starting to see that many liberal people are fundamentally rejecting the idea that life is actually worth living. Despair's best friends are anxiety and depression, which seem to be the bulk of mental health problems. Plenty of other obvious factors go into it.
I particularly enjoyed the piece by Rob Henderson on the deep instinct of men protecting women. I think that applies to protecting children also. I know I can watch movies or TV shows with men getting tortured, killed and maimed, but have a deep revulsion and cannot watch the same when it happens to women and children. It is a God-given instinct, that "...there is no greater love than to lie down one's life for his friends."
Interestingly, David Brooks at Yale / NYT, says that he now sees his students taking on religion with more openness and respect than say 15 years ago. He says, back then religion at Yale was like “bad acne.”
I wonder if the “bad acne” stage led to the negative world among adults. If so, maybe the openness of student today will lead to a more open world tomorrow.
(Reference to a podcast “David Brooks on your, morality and loneliness (Live at Mason) - Conversations with Tyler”
With such divergent worldviews, I wonder if the mental health chart would look mostly the same measured by church attendance. I'm starting to see that many liberal people are fundamentally rejecting the idea that life is actually worth living. Despair's best friends are anxiety and depression, which seem to be the bulk of mental health problems. Plenty of other obvious factors go into it.
I particularly enjoyed the piece by Rob Henderson on the deep instinct of men protecting women. I think that applies to protecting children also. I know I can watch movies or TV shows with men getting tortured, killed and maimed, but have a deep revulsion and cannot watch the same when it happens to women and children. It is a God-given instinct, that "...there is no greater love than to lie down one's life for his friends."