THVRSDAY EDITION
MORNING ISSUE TOP-10 NEWS LINKS: (I apologize for the hour delay in posting, it was a long day)
1. New Church on Univ. of Virginia Campus Evangelizes with Beauty – Zelda Caldwell at Aleteia
2. Exposing the Truth in the Persecution of Cardinal Pell – The Australian Catholic Weekly
3. Medieval African Monastery Reconstructed Virtually – Medievalists.net
4. An Incredible Resurgence of Catholicism in Milwaukee – Cream City Catholic
5. Flatten the Curve – Not a Covid Post – One Mad Mom
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POLITICS:
The Unreality of Joe Biden – Auguste Meyrat at Crisis Magazine
On the Washington Post’s People of Praise Confusion – Alexandra DeSanctis at National Review
Senators Reject Claim Amy Coney Barrett Too Christian for Supreme Court – CNA via NC Rgstr
BONUS NEWS LINKS:
Towards a ‘Beautiful Polyhedral Reality’ – Michael Warren Davis at Crisis Magazine
Our Lady of Victory & the Power of Prayer – Casey Chalk at The Catholic World Report
OTHER NEWS LINK(S):
U. of St Thomas (Houston) Prof Uses 21st Century Tech to Teach Classics Amid Pandemic – CBS
∧ THE SAMIZDAT HERALD TOP-10 NEWS LINKS: ∧
1. Mike Pence was the Unlikely Winner of Vice Presidential Debate – Mt. Walther at The Week
2. The Demographic Wipe-Out Facing Australia – Marcus Roberts at Mercatornet
3. The Bizarre History of St. Matthew, U.S.’s Most Remote Island – Tanner Garrity at Inside Hook
4. NBA Caves! No ‘Black Lives Matter’ on Courts & Jerseys Next Year – Th. Lifson at Am Thinker
5. The Myth of Mike Pence’s Appeal – Matthew Walther at The Week
6. A Failed Experiment: The Lockdowns Must End – John Tierney at City Journal
7. Why People Are Building Bunkers for the Apocalypse – Art of Manliness
8. The Racist Democrat Mayors & Teachers – Melissa Mackenzie at The Amrcn Spectator
9. Macron is Right about Islamist Separatism – Fraser Myers at Sp!ked
10. Inconvenient Truths 60 Minutes Forgot Regarding Calif. Wildfires & Climate Change – FEE
Civilization Watch Top-10 News Links:
1. The Demographic Wipe-Out Facing Australia – Marcus Roberts at Mercatornet
2. Artsakh: The Lonely Christian Mountain – Alberto M. Fernandez at Providence Magazine
3. Macron is Right about Islamist Separatism – Fraser Myers at Sp!ked
4. Another Vindication of Sweden – Sp!ked
5. Ending Communist China’s Choke Hold on Rare-earth Minerals – Kori Schake at AEI
6. Why the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth’s Legacy of Liberty is Worthy of Appreciation – FEE
7. It’s Time China Got Over the Opium War – Bill Hayton at UnHerd
8. Communist China’s Public Relations Efforts are Not Working – Elisabeth Braw at AEI
9. Pompeo to Fortify Indo-Pacific Quad Coalition, China Fears as ‘mini-NATO’ – J. Gehrke at WE
10. The Stakes in Nagorno-Karabakh War are Higher This Time Round – The Moscow Times
The Anglosphere Top-10 News Links:
1. Wokeness Comes To Halliburton – Rod Dreher at The American Conservative
2. The Election is Joe Biden’s to Lose – Daniel DePetris at The Spectator|USA
3. Did the V.P. Debate Change a Single Mind? – Charles Lipson at The Spectator|USA
4. The Narrative of White Supremacism in Math Results in Delusional Policy – Rob. Cherry at CJ
5. Dueling Polls – Karlyn Bowman at American Enterprise Institute
6. Lessons Learned from Those Who Stay & Defend Their Properties from Wildfires – S.M. Joyce
7. Newsom’s Car-Ban Publicity Stunt – Steven Greenhut at The American Spectator
8. The Constitutional Reckoning of State Lockdown Orders – Ethan Yang at AIER
9. The Uses of Revolutionary Violence – F.H. Buckley at Law & Liberty
10. Don’t Blur the Line between Science & Politics – Rob Sutton at Sp!ked
Theopolitics Top-10 News Links:
1. Medieval African Monastery Reconstructed Virtually – Medievalists.net 88
2. The Sinister Vatican Plot Against Cardinal Pell (Paywall) – Damian Thompson at The Spectator
3. Acedia: The Lost Name for the Emotion We’re All Feeling Right Now – Jonathan L. Zecher
4. The Utopian Vision of Pope Francis – Rob Crisell at The American Spectator
5. Artsakh: The Lonely Christian Mountain – Alberto M. Fernandez at Providence Magazine
6. Biden Threatens Religious Freedom, Suggests Trad’l Christians are Dregs of Society – PJM
7. On the Washington Post’s People of Praise Confusion – Alexandra DeSanctis at Ntnl Review
8. Macron is Right about Islamist Separatism – Fraser Myers at Sp!ked
9. ‘Xi Jinping’s Religious Persecution Harsher than Mao Zedong’s’ – Tang Feng at Bitter Winter
10. Archaeologists Unearth Foundations of One of Nation’s Oldest Black Churches – N McGreevy
Etc. Top News Links:
1. Medieval African Monastery Reconstructed Virtually – Medievalists.net
2. Acedia: The Lost Name for the Emotion We’re All Feeling Right Now – Jonathan L. Zecher
3. Prince Harry is Royal Kryptonite – Mary Harrington at UnHerd
4. The Bizarre History of St. Matthew, America’s Most Remote Island – Tanner Garrity at Inside Hook
5. Why People Are Building Bunkers for the Apocalypse – Art of Manliness
6. Tribute to ‘Formidable, Irreplaceable’ Eddie Van Halen – Joe Trohman at Variety
7. A Colossal Statue Of Atlas Will Rise Again – Isis Davis-Marks at Smithsonian Magazine
8 Archaeologists Unearth Foundations of One of Nation’s Oldest Black Churches – N. McGreevy