TEL AVIV — A surge of additional U.S. forces to the Middle East and President Donald Trump’s threat to “obliterate” Iran’s energy infrastructure have set the stage for what U.S. and Israeli security officials increasingly see as the war’s possible endgame: a battle for control of the Strait of Hormuz and key energy installations. Source link
Chloé Zhao’s film, marked by its raw and singular poetry, follows the formation of William Shakespeare’s household, capturing both its joys and tragedies. Source link
Last April, I was offered the “Parting Shot” in Salvo 73. That issue focused on what did and didn’t happen at the Scopes Monkey Trial a century ago. I wrote about the decline since then in the idea that facts even matter much. Here’s the whole shot: ≻───── ⋆☆⋆ ─────≺ All the participants in the Scopes trial [about teaching common descent of humans and apes in Tennessee schools] took one thing for granted: public truth. Gravity, for example, is a public truth. What goes up must come down. Defying the law of gravity is a byword for folly. Scopes and his patrons regarded Darwinian evolution as truth of that sort. In Summer for the Gods (1997), Edward Larson quoted a lead story in The New York Times which asserted that Clarence Darrow “bearded the lion of Fundamentalism today, faced William Jennings Bryan and a court room filled with believers of the literal word of the Bible and with a hunch of his shoulders and a thumb in his suspenders defied every belief they hold sacred.” …
