Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Reading Rat - April 2019

Articles, Essays, Reviews

‘Sign of Our Repentance’: Weakland’s Name Expunged From Milwaukee Church Building, by Father Raymond J. de Souza, National Catholic Register

Poll: Jews, Arabs much less divided than Israeli politics lets on, by Dahlia Scheindlin, +972 (via The Economist)

Between Rome and ‘Jerusalem and Athens’, by Richard M. Reinsch II, review of Leo Strauss and His Catholic Readers, edited by Geoffrey M. Vaughan, The University Bookman

Iconic consoles of the IBM System/360 mainframes, 55 years old, Ken Shirriff's Blog

Events

Franklin Public Library book sale, 9151 West Loomis Road, Franklin, Wisconsin, in the Fadrow Meeting Room:
- Wednesday, May 8th 5:30-8:30 pm Preview Night;
- Thursday, May 9th, 10:00 am-8:30 pm,
- Friday, May 10thk 10:00 am-6:00 pm,
- Saturday, May 11th 10:00 am-5:00 pm Bargain Bag Day! Fill a standard grocery style bag with books for only $2!
- Monday, May 13th 10:00 am-2:00 pm Nonprofit Day! Not-for-profit organizations and owners of Little Free Libraries will have the chance to come in and select books at no charge. Just bring proof of your not-for-profit status or a picture of your Little Free Library!

The Common Good, First Things Intellectual Retreat, Washington, June 7th-8th 2019

Plato and Platonism in Aristotle and the Aristotelian Tradition, Fourteenth Annual Marquette Summer Seminar on Aristotle and the Aristotelian Tradition, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June 24th-26th 2019

Colosseum Summer Institute: A course and workshop in the art of poetry for aspiring writers, James Matthew Wilson, Director, Franciscan University, Steubenville, Ohio, July 8th-11th 2019

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