The Bookmonger - Episode 451: ‘Political Meritocracy in Renaissance Italy’ by James Hankins
John J. Miller is joined by James Hankins to discuss his new book, 'Political Meritocracy in Renaissance Italy.'
The Intelligence from The Economist - Home economics: housing markets’ future
Many people think that with inflation and interest-rate rises abating, the worst effects on housing markets might be over. Not so fast. A study that reignited mask-wearing debates really should not have: there are simply not enough good data to prove either side’s case. And an immersive, participatory production of “Guys and Dolls” shows the way ahead for live-entertainment industries.
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The Best One Yet - 🧢 “Merch Monday” — Aesop’s profit shampoo. Levi’s denim drama. The Pope’s fancy AI.
L’Oreal acquired Aesop, the Australian soap and shampoo company, for $2.5B because they sell the most profitable physical thing we’ve ever seen. Levi’s stock dropped 15% in one day last week because when the economy drops, so do your jeans. And if you’ve seen images of The Pope and Harry Potter looking fancy, they’re AI-generated — because artificial intelligence can go from zero-to-artwork in 3.2 seconds.
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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 4.10.23
Alabama
- Bill to secure visitation rights at hospitals awaits signature from governor
- Leaders in AL House and Senate dampen hopes for full school choice bill
- State senator files bill re: public record requests and timelines
- Motion for bail filed by former Huntsville officer after granted new trial
- An abuse of corpse trial from 2019 to get underway by end of this month
- Legal action taken by Montgomery man against Mayor Steven Reed
- 2nd Train derailment in AL happened on Sunday in Jasper
- Birmingham Vietnam vet receives Purple Heart award, among others
National
- China conducts drills and simulated strikes against Taiwan for 3 days
- US Pentagon leaders report reveals ammunition stockpile very low
- 2 District judges rule for and against abortion drug from FDA
- Kentucky swimmer Riley Gains will press charges after San Fran assault
- Catholic priests accuse Walter Reed medical center of contract breach
Everything Everywhere Daily - An Introduction to the Balkans
Located in southeastern Europe is the Balkan Peninsula. It is home to multiple ethics groups, languages, and religions.
It has one of the most dynamic and confusing histories of anywhere in Europe, with multiple migrations of people arriving over the centuries.
Not surprisingly, it has also been the source of many conflicts, some of which are still ongoing today.
Learn more about the Balkans, its history, and what it consists of on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Start the Week - Ai Weiwei and design values
The artist Ai Weiwei has always enjoyed ignoring the boundaries between disciplines, fusing art, architecture, design, collecting and social activism. He’s now taken over the Design Museum in London (from 7th April – 30th July 2023), filling it with his work and collections - from millions of handcrafted porcelain sunflower seeds to Lego pieces and broken teapot spouts dating back to the Song Dynasty. The exhibition, Making Sense, explores what we value - from what we perceive to be precious or worthless, to the tensions between the past and present, as well as work made by hand and machine.
The engineer Roma Agrawal invites readers to marvel at the design of many of the small but perfectly formed inventions that have changed the world. In Nuts & Bolts she deconstructs complex feats of engineering to focus on the nail, spring, wheel, lens, magnet, string and pump.
The economist Bent Flyvbjerg is also interested in deconstructing things, but he's focused on ambitious multi-million pound projects to find out why the vast majority are significantly over-budget and past their deadline. In How Big Things Get Done he extolls the virtue of 'thinking slow, acting fast', and how megaprojects that are designed with Lego-building in mind are more likely to succeed.
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Image credit: close up of Monet's Water Lilies in Lego, constructed by Ai Wei Wei - photo copyright by Ela Bialkowska OKNO Studio
NBN Book of the Day - Celeste Day Moore, “Soundscapes of Liberation: African American Music in Postwar France” (Duke UP, 2021)
Celeste Day Moore is a historian of African American culture, media, and Black internationalism in the twentieth century. Her first book, Soundscapes of Liberation: African American Music in Postwar France (Duke University Press, 2021), was awarded the Gilbert Chinard Prize from the Society for French Historical Studies. Her research has appeared in American Quarterly, the Journal of African American History, and the first edited volume of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS). She received her doctorate from the University of Chicago and has been a fellow at the Institut d’Études Politiques in Paris and the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies at the University of Virginia. As an associate professor of history at Hamilton College, she teaches courses on African American history as well as histories of empire, race, Black internationalism, and U.S. international relations.
In Soundscapes of Liberation, Celeste Day Moore traces the popularization of African American music in postwar France, where it signaled new forms of power and protest. Moore surveys a wide range of musical genres, soundscapes, and media: the US military's wartime records and radio programs; the French record industry's catalogs of blues, jazz, and R&B recordings; the translations of jazz memoirs; a provincial choir specializing in spirituals; and US State Department-produced radio programs that broadcast jazz and gospel across the French empire. In each of these contexts, individual intermediaries such as educators, producers, writers, and radio deejays imbued African American music with new meaning, value, and political power. Their work resonated among diverse Francophone audiences and transformed the lives and labor of many African American musicians, who found financial and personal success as well as discrimination in France. By showing how the popularity of African American music was intertwined with contemporary structures of racism and imperialism, Moore demonstrates this music's centrality to postwar France and the convergence of decolonization, the expanding globalized economy, the Cold War, and worldwide liberation movements.
Annie deSaussure, holds a Ph.D. in French from Yale University and is an Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies in the Department of Languages and Literary Studies at Lafayette College. Her work focuses on minority regional languages, literatures, and cultures in contemporary France, with a focus on the region of Brittany, the historical and artistic dimensions of radio in France, and podcasting.
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Opening Arguments - OA722: Right-Wing Judge Appointed to the Bench to Ban Abortion… Bans Abortion
Today, Liz and Andrew break down Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk's late-night Friday stay order that essentially overrules the FDA and removes mifepristone (the abortion pill) from the list of approved drugs.
How bad is it? Is a parallel decision from a federal court on Washington part of the solution? What's next? Listen and find out!
Notes OA 707 on Kacsmaryk https://openargs.com/oa707-peter-navarro-gets-spanked-by-government-in-presidential-records-case-with-major-implications-for-trump/
Kacsmaryk Order https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txnd.370067/gov.uscourts.txnd.370067.137.0_14.pdf
Washington v. FDA https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.waed.102225/gov.uscourts.waed.102225.80.0.pdf
United States v. One Package https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=14734857310809857501
FDA on REMS https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/risk-evaluation-and-mitigation-strategies-rems
FDA on unapproved drugs https://www.fda.gov/drugs/enforcement-activities-fda/unapproved-drugs
Comstock Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1461 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1461
5 U.S.C. § 705 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/5/705
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The NewsWorthy - Abortion Pill in Limbo, Secret Files Leaked & ‘Super Mario’ Breaks Records- Monday, April 10, 2023
The news to know for Monday, April 10, 2023!
What to know about two conflicting rulings over abortion access in the U.S. that could put the issue back before the Supreme Court soon.
Also, top-secret American documents were published online, but who's behind the big leak? And how big of an impact will it have?
Plus, what new rules could mean a bigger push toward electric cars, which college graduates make the most money a decade after graduation, and the movie that broke all kinds of records at the box office.
Those stories and more news to know in around 10 minutes!
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The Daily Signal - INTERVIEW | Media Watchdog Group Holds Stanford Law School Accountable for Disrespecting Conservative Judge
Judge Kyle Duncan, a conservative on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, arrived on the Stanford Law School campus on March 9. He was there to deliver remarks to students at an event hosted by the campus Federalist Society group, but Duncan never had the opportunity to deliver his talk.
Upon entering the lecture call, students began heckling Duncan, preventing him from speaking. Finally Tirien Steinbach, associate dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion at Stanford Law, stood up and took the podium. For about six minutes, she spoke to the students and to Duncan.
“For many people in this law school … your advocacy, your opinions from the bench land as absolute disenfranchisement of their rights,” Steinbach said.
When Duncan tried to respond, Steinbach told the judge, “Please let me finish.” Multiple students began shouting, “Let her finish” as they pounded their desks.
Duncan stood by and allowed Steinbach to complete her lecture. Now, the media watchdog group Accuracy in Media is calling on Stanford Law to dismiss Steinbach.
“These crybullies throw metaphorical punches all day long and they never have to take one in return, and that's where we step in," Adam Guillette, president of Accuracy in Media, says.
Accuracy in Media has a mobile billboard on the Stanford campus naming the students who heckled Duncan and calling for Steinbach’s termination.
The law school did issue an apology and has placed Steinbach on paid leave, but has stopped short of terminating her.
“These people, who think they know it all and seek to lecture federal judges, don't even apply the basic level of common sensewhich makes sense because they don't apply the basic level of civility,” Guillette says.
Guillette joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" today to explain how Accuracy in Media is advocating that Steinbach be fired. He also explains how his organization has gone undercover in public schools to expose how classrooms teach diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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