'A denial of the transcendent produces bad architecture very consistently over the last 100 years'

In this episode of MMM Louise Perry & Stephen Blackwood discuss what happens when the world gives up on the idea of transcendent goods.

Full episode: youtu.be/a61fTSpjagI

IHS President & CEO Emily Chamlee-Wright on the freedom to read:

“Reading changes how we understand the world and our place within it. Once reading has done its disruptive work, systems of oppression and systems of liberation come into clearer view.”

Read more in Persuasion:

Milanny state 😏

via The Times and The Sunday Times

thetimes.co.uk/article/milan-…

Always a real pleasure to write for Asymptote Journal (per Dubravka Ugrešić: 'a global literary miracle').

Euthanasia (lethal injections administered by doctors) is the answer to ease growing pressure to provide social care for old people, argues Belgian health insurance chief

thetimes.co.uk/article/expand…

Salman Rushdie describing his attacker as 'the man who failed to kill an unarmed 75- year-old writer' is so characteristically badass.

I've just caught up with the closing down of the National Conservatives conference in Brussels by a local mayor. This is an act of illiberalism worthy of a Putin or a Lukashenko and should be condemned.

'It has taken me four decades to understand that man begins to live to the degree to which he stops dreaming of himself.'

Tan sabio del gran escritor Pablo d'Ors.

via 'Biografía del silencio'/Pablo d'Ors

'Undercover documentary footage revealed cannibalism, malnourishment, open bloody wounds, sickness, and other forms of horrific mistreatment.'

via @onegreenplanet

onegreenplanet.org/animals/petiti…

'The astonishing apathy about #climate change is not a matter of scientific ignorance, more about #bias .'

From 'The Matter with Things' (Dr Iain McGilchrist)

'Immigration judges are more likely to reject asylum applications on hotter days. Some drugs don’t work well in high temperatures. Children still in the womb during an extreme weather event face a higher risk of suffering psychiatric conditions.'

via @ft

ft.com/content/ba7112…

A paradox: kids who get loads of therapy are stressed, anxious, and depressed. Abigail Shrier has a suggestion: maybe it isn't a paradox. Maybe the therapy is the problem.

My #review of 'Bad Therapy'.

via @euroconofficial/Abigail Shrier

europeanconservative.com/articles/revie…

Bit bleak. It's as if a second #language were just a tool for ordering a beer in a foreign restaurant. Languages are portals to different ways of thinking and perceiving, which are different ways of being.

Mais qu'est-ce que j'en sais ?

via @theatlantic

theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

Expanding industrial livestock production threatens the environment and food security.

We're demanding that World Bank IFC STOP using public dollars to finance factory farming!
#StopFinancingFactoryFarming theguardian.com/business/2024/…

Tenth consecutive monthly heat record alarms and confounds climate scientists theguardian.com/global/2024/ap…

Decriminalizing drugs, Oregon offers a cautionary tale via @WashingtonPost Editorial Board

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/…

Knew it.

via @telegraph

telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/0…

Gosh. Now it's serious.

via @cbsnews

cbsnews.com/news/wine-regi…

“When you give up Christian faith, you pull the rug out from under your right to Christian morality as well. This is anything but obvious: you have to keep driving this point home, English idiots to the contrary.”

Nietzsche, writing 136 years ago, in Twilight of the Idols

China is supercharging the green transition—while burning mountains of coal. Is the country a villain or a saint when it comes to climate change? econ.st/3Vhi0ct 👇