How anyone replies other than “duh” is beyond me.
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\n–In May 1997 Andrei Konchalovsky directed a two-part adaptation of The Odyssey for NBC starring Armand Assante, Greta...
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\nLast month I was driving on a highway in Dallas and saw a sign for AUTOS and in my head I read it as αὐτός. Took me a full five seconds to click over.
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\nOn second thought, earlier this month I read...
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\nI have a suspicion that this new run of Substack newsletters at The Ringer portends a certain William J. Simmons III relearning how to use his fingers.
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\n
That’s Sonny Bunch. Had never...
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\n\n\nMy hope is not that you will read this and stop drinking alcohol. I think the data says it should be an exception for anyone who has a serious interest in being a good steward of their physical health, but the scriptures do not require you to completely abstain from alcohol.
\n
This calls back to an earlier section:
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From Benjamin Kunkel’s review of Tracy Daugherty’s new biography of Cormac McCarthy, I learned that McCarthy (a) gave himself the name Cormac and (b) was born in New England to a prosperous Catholic family and lawyer father. At times I think Kunkel is ungenerous to McCarthy’s work—he seems rather obsessed...
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\n\nmicro.bradeast.org","summary":"","url":"https://micro.bradeast.org/2026/10/22/martin-gramling-the-aeneid-not.html","date_published":"2026-10-22T22:28:13+00:00","author":{"name":"Brad East","url":"https://eastbrad.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F19%2F1616697.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"eastbrad"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-22 22:28","date_timestamp":1792708093,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"99708967","content_html":"The Aeneid, not the Odyssey, is surely the American classical epic: a well-funded, highly anticipated blockbuster, with a screenwriter hand-picked by the emperor himself; self-conscious, wholesome propaganda wrapped in delicious popular entertainment, designed to unify, enculturate, and civilize a vulgar but cosmopolitan hegemon at the dawn of its imperial age. Like so much popular American art, the Aeneid is a derivative but transgressive sequel. It has all the best bits from Homer, but inverts the good guys and the bad. That hollow horse was a dirty trick—we all believe that now,...
\n
In the latest issue of First Things, I thought James Wood’s review of Keith Johnson’s new book on Barth and nationalism was fair-minded, judicious, irenic, and patient in its assessment and criticisms. Would be interested to hear Johnson’s reply.
\nI also just love to read Dan Hitchens' sentences, and his...
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\nOne...
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\n\n","summary":"","url":"https://micro.bradeast.org/2026/10/22/the-cgi-in-the-magicians.html","date_published":"2026-10-22T17:46:42+00:00","author":{"name":"Brad East","url":"https://eastbrad.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F19%2F1616697.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"eastbrad"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-22 17:46","date_timestamp":1792691202,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"99694769","content_html":"WSJ headline: “Netflix, America’s Dominant Streaming Service, Has Hit a Wall”
\nSubhead: “Company overhauling creative leadership as it struggles to get domestic audiences to watch more”
\nI have news for Netflix and all other streamers: There is no more “more” to chase. It’s all watching, all the time. Unless...
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\n","summary":"","url":"https://micro.bradeast.org/2026/10/22/robin-sloan-these-are-liquid.html","date_published":"2026-10-22T17:41:21+00:00","author":{"name":"Brad East","url":"https://eastbrad.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F19%2F1616697.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"eastbrad"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-22 17:41","date_timestamp":1792690881,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"99694040","content_html":"Hebrews 10:11-14:
\n\n\nΚαὶ πᾶς μὲν ἱερεὺς ἕστηκεν καθ' ἡμέραν λειτουργῶν καὶ τὰς αὐτὰς πολλάκις προσφέρων θυσίας, αἵτινες οὐδέποτε δύνανται περιελεῖν ἁμαρτίας. οὗτος δὲ μίαν ὑπὲρ ἁμαρτιῶν προσενέγκας θυσίαν εἰς τὸ διηνεκὲς ἐκάθισεν ἐν δεξιᾷ τοῦ θεοῦ, τὸ λοιπὸν ἐκδεχόμενος ἕως τεθῶσιν οἱ ἐχθροὶ αὐτοῦ ὑποπόδιον τῶν ποδῶν αὐτοῦ· μιᾷ γὰρ προσφορᾷ τετελείωκεν εἰς τὸ διηνεκὲς τοὺς ἁγιαζομένους.
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Here is the NRSVUE’s rendering:
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\n
And in the latest issue of Harper’s I was engrossed by Jackson Lears' polemical essay against American imperialism. Parts of the piece are far too one-sided—implying that an opposing view is groundless or unthinkably stupid or irrational—but the whole thing is worth reading. Here is one of many money lines:
\n\n\nThe Founders feared that an empire committed to endless war would create scarcity amid plenty; centuries later, that fear has been vindicated.
\n
Lears' argument about America’s imperial past and present is worth pairing with this recent ISI debate between Curt Mills and Phillip Blond on the same...
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