Reading Rat - September 2020

Articles, Essays, Reviews

The Blast That Changed Everything: A 50-year perspective on the Sterling Hall bombing from alumni who lived through it, by Preston Schmitt and Doug Erickson, On Wisconsin

Wisconsin DOC classifies as violent many more offenses than does the FBI, by Julie Grace, Badger Institute

The Pinnacle of Looting Apologia, by Graeme Wood, review of In Defense of Looting: A Riotous History of Uncivil Action, The Atlantic

The Temptations of Power, by Theodore Dalrymple, Law & Liberty

Workplace "Anti-Racism Trainings" Aren’t Helping, by J. C. Pan, Jacobin

Freethinkers, by Theo Hobson, review of Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian origins of religious freedom, by Robert Louis Wilken, The Times Literary Supplement

2020 Distinguished Professional Service Award: Carmelo A. Puglisi, WDC Journal

This Book Delivery Service Introduces a New Way to Get Your Next Read, by Marla Hiller, Milwaukee Magazine

Is Christianity True? The Existence of God, the Discoveries of Science, and a Closing Argument for the Resurrection, by William Griesbach

Christian Democracy, by Michel Gurfinkiel, First Things

Physics Departments Ditch the GRE in Bid for Equity, by Daniel Garisto, APS News (via KausFiles)

By Paul V. Mankowski (1953-2020) First Things

Events

Great Conversation Reading Group, Current Reading from the Ten Years Reading Plan in Great Books of the Western World:

Great Books 2018-2019 Readings for the Great Books Roundtable Discussions at Special Collections on the Fourth Floor of the Golda Meir Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee;