Recommended Reading
A few suggestions based on what I've read lately.
https://bariweiss.substack.com
I first learned about Substack by reading posts from Bari Weiss. Bari had been a writer and editor at the New York Times until 2020 when she became tired of the culture of the publication and decided to leave and write on her own. Bari is one of those wonderful people who are truly liberals in the best sense of the word. She believes in freedom of expression. You’ll find her work and the work of other writers at her Substack. You won’t be sorry you checked it out.
You’ll find interesting writing at Quillette. A wide variety of topics that are honest and questioning. It is, also, a place where free expression is allowed, encouraged and done in a very thoughtful manner. Hopefully you won’t agree with all of the writers. That would mean they aren’t being honest.
It’s always a pleasure to be able to say ‘I know that guy!’ But I do. I know Brad Thompson. He’s a brilliant thinker and writer who is deep in the world of higher education. On the rare occasion I get to sit down and chat with him, I always come away smarter for the experience. He is also an author of books and hopefully will grace us with more. His most recent, ‘America’s Revolutionary Mind,’ is outstanding.
https://www.amazon.com/Americas-Revolutionary-Mind-Revolution-Declaration/dp/164177066X
Oh, and as a kid he played hockey with Wayne Gretzky. How cool is that?
This is a very cool article from BBC on how humans used to sleep. You thought we always slept the same way? Not so fast. This helps explain why as I’ve grown older I wake up at around 2 or 3 am every night and just lie there.
https://www.amazon.com/Sergeant-Lambs-America-Robert-Graves/dp/089733213X
I found Sergeant Lamb’s America at Mr. K’s Bookstore in Greenville, SC. It’s a wonderful historical novel set during the revolution and told from the perspective of a Sergeant in His Majesty’s Army, sent to fight for the crown against the colonial forces. Written by Robert Graves (author of I Claudius among other works), Graves also served in WWI and built the novel around a soldier he found in his regimental rolls from the revolutionary period. We do love to think about the revolution and how noble it was, but we rarely get a glimpse of how it looked from the other side. It’s worth reading.
https://store.ancientfaith.com/the-blessed-surgeon-the-life-of-saint-luke-archbishop-of-simferopol/
This is a fascinating book about St. Luke the Surgeon, an orthodox physician and later priest who endured the terrors of the Soviet system but who never ceased to pursue excellence in medicine and simultaneously never wavered in his faith in Christ; the combination of which made a truly remarkable man of God and science.
OK, that’s probably enough. I hope you find something in here interesting!
Edwin
Love Bari Weiss. Rebel Wisdom is really good too. And Sam Harris is incredibly intelligent ( one of those honest atheists who should be a believer).