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Mental Health Day

Patrick Rhone gives a powerful reminder that for some, every day is Mental Health Day.

Boo

 

Time to Stock Up for Fall

 

Why Read?

 

Farnam Street has advice from Harold Bloom.

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Huxley Break

 

The Abandonment of Liberalism

What unnerves those who lived under Soviet communism is this similarity: Elites and elite institutions [in the West] are abandoning old-fashioned liberalism, based in defending the right of the individual, and replacing it with a progressive creed that regards justice in terms of groups. It encourages people to identify with groups - ethnic, sexual, and otherwise - and to think of Good and Evil as a matter of power dynamics among the groups. A utopian vision drives these progressives, one that compels them to seek to rewrite history and reinvent language to reflect their ideals of social justice.

- From To Live Not By Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher

Weekend Leadership Reading

 

Wally Bock has the assignments and they revolve around how the pandemic may affect the workplace for some time to come.

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Mighty Ira

 

Reason magazine: Ira Glasser worries about the current ACLU's commitment to free speech.

Another Reason to Read Raymond Chandler

Anna Halsey was about two hundred and forty pounds of middle-aged putty-faced woman in a black tailor-made suit. Her eyes were shiny black shoe buttons, her cheeks were as soft as suet and about the same color. She was sitting behind a black glass desk that looked like Napoleon's tomb and she was smoking a cigarette in a black holder that was not quite as long as a rolled umbrella. She said: "I need a man." 

- Raymond Chandler