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Oct 6, 2024 | 
intellectualtakeout.org | Jonathan Barnes
Sitting in his chair atop his porch, Mike “A-Sunday” Acendy is watching and maybe also observing things in his lifelong neighborhood of Lawrenceville. At almost 90 years old, Mike A-Sunday, as old-timers know him, is one of the oldest residents. Half-Irish, half-Italian, he lives in the home in which he was born and raised, and he carries in his mind’s eye a historical panorama of his fast-gentrifying formerly blue-collar neighborhood.
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Aug 11, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Jonathan Barnes
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Aug 11, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Jonathan Barnes
Jonathan Barnes - BBC News, SuffolkAugust 12, 2024 at 1:38 AM·2 min readTown criers may date back to medieval times but one community is bringing back the role to reach people who do not use social media. A new bellman made his first appearance in the Suffolk town of Woodbridge on Saturday, booming public announcements from three locations.
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Apr 11, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Clement Mkiva |Cecil Kuyo |Agnes Akal |Jonathan Barnes |Diana Burger |Mayson Petla | +3 more
OverviewJohannesburg Arbitration Week (JAW), which is currently being held at the Sandton Convention Centre aims to explore the issues and challenges in the rapidly evolving field of international commercial arbitration, with a special focus on the key initiatives shaping and revolutionising dispute resolution in Africa.
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Mar 1, 2024 | 
intellectualtakeout.org | Kurt Mahlburg |Jeff Minick |Walker Larson |Jonathan Barnes
In his popular work Culture of Narcissism, Christopher Lasch wrote:To live for the moment is the prevailing passion—to live for yourself, not for your predecessors or posterity. We are fast losing the sense of historical continuity, the sense of belonging to a succession of generations originating in the past and stretching into the future. Now, more than three decades after Lasch wrote those words, the consequences of this culture of narcissism are bearing rotten fruit.
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Feb 29, 2024 | 
intellectualtakeout.org | Kurt Mahlburg |Jeff Minick |Walker Larson |Jonathan Barnes
A ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court last week has been the cause of immense hyperventilating in the mainstream press—and the predictable invocation of scare terms like “theocracy” and “Christian nationalism.”In LePage v. Center for Reproductive Medicine, P.C., a fertility clinic that neglected to properly secure its frozen embryo nursery from a prying patient was found in breach of Alabama’s Wrongful Death of a Minor Act, after several embryos were killed.
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
intellectualtakeout.org | Jeff Minick |Kurt Mahlburg |Walker Larson |Jonathan Barnes
Have you ever known a friend who said, “Next year I’m moving to Rome and living the Italian Dream?” How about a buddy who over coffee declared, “I can’t stand this country anymore. I’m off to Ankara, where I can live the Turkish Dream?” Or an uncle who slapped his open hand on the table and said, “No more disappointments for me. Me and mine are flying out next month to Beijing so we can finally be happy living the Chinese Dream?”No? Me neither.
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Feb 22, 2024 | 
intellectualtakeout.org | Kurt Mahlburg |Jeff Minick |Walker Larson |Jonathan Barnes
Unless you have lived under a rock for the last four years, you will be very familiar with the claim that black Americans are disproportionately victims of police shootings compared with their white counterparts. But a nearly eight-year-old study challenging this narrative is enjoying renewed attention thanks to a recent high-profile interview of the study’s author, African American economist Roland Fryer, by journalist Bari Weiss of The Free Press.
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
intellectualtakeout.org | Jeff Minick |Kurt Mahlburg |Walker Larson |Jonathan Barnes
A new book by Mark Helprin is like a surprise gift from St. Nick, so when I spotted The Oceans and the Stars: A Sea Story, a War Story, a Love Story on the “New Book” shelf of my public library, I snagged that gift, headed for the checkout desk, and opened it as soon as I arrived home. This novel ranks right up there with two other Helprin favorites of mine, A Soldier of the Great War and Freddy and Fredericka.
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Feb 19, 2024 | 
intellectualtakeout.org | Walker Larson |Jeff Minick |Kurt Mahlburg |Jonathan Barnes
In this most rare and radiant of Wisconsin February’s, with record-high temperatures and ample sunshine, my wife has been tapping trees and making maple syrup. I applaud her efforts, and I gratefully ingest the fruit of her labors. The sap has been running steadily, recklessly, almost, overflowing the pails she uses, turning their sides sleek with sweetness. Meanwhile, the nations pursue their course of burning to the ground.
