On Cultural Illiteracy, Why Rituals Matter, and Other Topics

A number of articles/posts have recently been published on a variety of subjects worth considering.

To access some of these, please visit:

The Boston Pilot: Echoes: Michael Reardon: Taking the long view (28 AUG 20)

Crisis Magazine: The Bondage of Cultural Illiteracy (23 JUN 20)

GetReligion: Journalism cancels its moral voice: What does this mean for Catholic news? For religion news? (8 JUN 20)

Public Discourse: Amid Cries for Justice, a Surge of Mercy (28 MAY 20)

WCRB: Why Is American Classical Music So White? (5 JUN 20)

Smithsonian Magazine: When Tuberculosis Struck the World, Schools Went Outside (1 SEP 20)

The Washington Post: Commentary: Kathleen Parker: Lost graduations are ultimately trivial. But they remind us why rituals matter. (15 MAY 20)

History: The WWII Spy Who Faked His Death for 36 Years (29 AUG 18)