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Fortnightly Flotsam
Miscellaneous debris from the past two weeks
Why June 1 is a Great Day to Honor the Copts
Our Christian brothers, the Copts, celebrate “The Entry of the Lord into Egypt” today.
It’s one of seven minor Coptic feasts that commemorate events in Christ’s life.
I’d think this one is exceptionally special to them.
The Copts are one of the four or five Oriental Orthodox Churches: Syrian (which has two branches), Ethiopian, Armenian (of Kardashian fame), and Coptic. The term “Coptic” essentially means “Egyptian Christian.”
The New Right Surges . . . in Lower Manhattan?
I’d never even heard of a nascent Right movement in Manhattan, much less one that is gentrifying Chinatown and intentionally going to war with the Wokists in Brooklyn. But that’s what is happening. The twenty-somethings are open to anything to get past modernity, including embracing premodernity. Some are even converting to Catholicism.
How America Sold Out Little League, from America Magazine
This is a very good piece, with a few blemishes. The writer, for instance, characterizes the destruction of little league baseball as…
