Sunday, April 30, 2017

Reading Rat - April 2017

Articles, Essays, Reviews

The Changing Global Religious Landscape: Babies born to Muslims will begin to outnumber Christian births by 2035; people with no religion face a birth dearth, Pew Research Center

"Thoughts on a New Dark Age", by Jason Jewell, review of Subtracting Christianity: Essays on American Culture and Society (2015), by Joseph Sobran, at Anamnesis Journal (via Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation)

Mel Brooks’ 1969 Oscars Acceptance Speech (and What Came Before) is a Piece of Hollywood Gold, American Masters

Louis Fisher: War Powers and Unconstitutional Wars from Truman to the Present, video of lecture by Louis Fisher, Center for the Study of Statesmanship

Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return, review by Matt Fowler, IGN

The Electroliner Legend, by John D. Hornachek; Part 1: The Receiver was an optimist, Trains, October 1962; Part 2: "We have never done better than this." Trains, November 1962; at MTH Electric Trains

ABC for Book Collectors, by John Carter, at International League of Antiquarian Booksellers

Events

The UWM Department of Theatre presents Arcadia, by Tom Stoppard, directed by Michelle Lopez-Rios, at the Mainstage Theater in the Peck School of the Arts, May 3rd through 9th; Wednesday-Saturday, 7:30pm; Sunday, 2pm.

Her Own Accord, Great Books Chicago — May 5–7, 2017

Man as Political Animal: Person, Family, Polis … Empire?, The Academy of Philosophy & Letters 2017 Annual Meeting, June 2-4, 2017 at Villanova University

Noam Chomsky with Wallace Shawn: Rigorous Rationality, LIVE from the New York Public Library

Arcadia (1993) by Tom Stoppard is the subject of the next Great Books Roundtable Discussion, April 26th at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

J.D. Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, will be the featured speaker at the October 17th annual dinner of the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute

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