The Intelligence from The Economist - Crimea and punishment: Russia’s reprisals

An attack on the Kerch bridge—a pet project of President Vladimir Putin that links Russia with annexed Crimea—has prompted a swift and brutal response. We ask what is likely to happen next. We examine the multipolar nature of popular culture: fears of a globalised monoculture of cool have proved misplaced. And why buying booze in Delhi has again become so unpleasant. 

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Start the Week - Power plays and family dynamics

In her latest novel, The Unfolding, the prize-winning AM Homes has created a compelling central character: a larger than life American patriot and family man. Undone by Obama’s victory in the 2008 presidential election, he collects together a band of like-minded men to spread their version of the American dream, and to reclaim it by force if necessary. AM Homes tells Tom Sutcliffe her Big Guy’s fight to retain his influence is confounded by his failure to keep his own family from fracturing.

Power, reputation and family dynamics are also central to Ibsen’s play John Gabriel Borkman, now playing at the Bridge Theatre, directed by Nick Hytner, in a new version by Lucinda Coxon. Borkman was once a great man, who put wealth and influence ahead of his family and personal life. But now, disgraced and destitute after a financial scandal, he sits alone in an upstairs room obsessively planning his comeback.

Families and dynastic power is at the heart of Simon Sebag Montefiore’s history of The World: A Family History Of Humanity. The grand themes of war, migration, plague, religion and technology are told through the stories of the world’s great dynasties as they battle to stay relevant and retain power through the ages.

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Take This Pod and Shove It - 38: “Slow Hand” by Conway Twitty

This week Danny and Tyler dig into the history, impact, and unbridled horniness of Conway Twitty. We also add his no. 1 country hit "Slow Hand" (a cover/re-working of the Pointer Sisters song) to our public playlist! Hold your lover close and put on your tight fittin' jeans, because we're takin' y'all to Twitty City!

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The Best One Yet - 🪴 “Pardoned but still cuffed” — Marijuana’s financial crime. Handbag alt-vestments. YouTube’s thumbnail secret.

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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 10.10.22

Alabama

  • Senator Tuberville tears into Democrats who want crime and open borders
  • Jury finds Patrick Stallworth guilty in kidnapping death of Bham toddler
  • Trial date set in 2023 in case of missing woman buried in Hueytown
  • Mobile police arrest 5 people involved in drug trafficking
  • Gas prices on the rise after OPEC cuts global oil production

National

  • Biden makes comment about Russian nukes &  Armageddon, critics unleash
  • Watchdog group says CCP has police station in NYC to track dissidents
  • PA Biology teacher no longer suspended for not using "correct" pronouns
  • FL Surgeon General reinstated to Twitter after post made re: Covid tax
  • Trump held rally in NV, featuring video montage of Biden gaffes

Everything Everywhere Daily - The League of Nations

The first world war, known simply as the Great War at that time, was the most horrific war the world had ever seen. When the conflict ended, there was an effort to make sure that such a thing never happened again. 

To that end, a deliberative body was created where nations could come together to debate and discuss matters before plunging, once again, into war. 

While having some success, this deliberative body ultimately failed at its stated goal of avoiding another world war.

Learn more about the League of Nations and why it failed on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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The NewsWorthy - Crimea Bridge Attack, Federal Holiday & Historic Netflix Deal – Monday, October 10, 2022

The news to know for Monday, October 10, 2022!

What to know about an explosion on a key bridge for Russia, how Russia is already retaliating, and the people working toward peace.

Also: the damage estimates from Hurricane Ian are starting to come in just as residents of some of the hardest hit areas are finally allowed to see their homes.

Plus: PayPal threatened to take money out of your account if you violated its policies (now the company is apologizing), why some of Kanye West’s social media accounts were restricted, and a first of its kind Netflix debut in theaters only…

Those stories and more news to know in around 10 minutes!

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NBN Book of the Day - Gabriel Levy, “Beyond Heaven and Earth: A Cognitive Theory of Religion” (MIT Press, 2022)

In Beyond Heaven and Earth: A Cognitive Theory of Religion (MIT Press, 2022), Gabriel Levy argues that collective religious narratives and beliefs are part of nature; they are the basis for the formation of the narratives and beliefs of individuals. Religion grows out of the universe, but to make sense of it, we have to recognize the paradox that the universe is both mental and material (or neither). Levy contends that we need both humanities and natural science approaches to study religion and religious meaning, but we must also recognize the limits of these approaches. First, we must make the dominant metaphysics that undergirds the various disciplines of science and humanities more explicit. Second, we must reject those versions of metaphysics that maintain simple monisms and radical dualisms.

Bringing Donald Davidson’s philosophy—a form of pragmatism known as anomalous monism—to bear on religion, Levy offers a blueprint for one way that the humanities and natural sciences can have a mutually respectful dialogue. Levy argues that to understand religions, we must take their semantic content seriously. We need to rethink such basic concepts as narrative fiction, information, agency, creativity, technology, and intimacy. In the course of his argument, Levy considers the relation between two closely related semantics, fiction, and religion, and outlines a new approach to information. He then applies his theory to discrete cases: ancient texts, modern media, and intimacy.

Tiatemsu Longkumer is a Ph.D. scholar working on ‘Anthropology of Religion’ at North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong: India.

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