Some Good Reads
From the London Spectator: King Charles has a new Italian Truffle Dog, and restaurateur James Chiavarini describes two approaches to hunting the delicious fungi.
DW.com: Poland is not fooling around. They are instituting military training for everybody, including school kids!
City Journal: “Activists” aka “dirty communist swine” are mobilizing internationally to disable America’s F-35 stealth fighter by attacking its supply chain.
The Economist: Keep calm and learn how to shoot while skiing. “Charlemagne” argues that what Europe needs more of is not the Danish hygge (warmth and coziness). but rather Finland’s sisu (inner strength, perseverance, a can-do attitude, and stoicism in the face of adversity).
Last Month in Compact: Helen Andrews, Y ‘08, argued quite trenchantly that the rise of Wokeism corresponds directly with the increased presence of women in influential positions in Journalism, Business, Government, and Academia, and that female emotionalism and sentimentality, sensitivity and impulses toward nurturing stifle reason, objectivity, and tough-mindedness, producing Wokerie.
NYT: Ross Douthat interviews Helen Andrews, author of the above piece, and with her: Leah Libresco Sargeant, Y ‘11, author of a recent book, The Dignity of Dependence, which contends that the Feminist Movement persuaded women to take up roles that force them to suppress their feminine traits to fit into roles intended for men. These two very smart conservative women have two different critical slants on the impact of the Feminist Revolution.