We live in a time of hopes and horrors and mirrors. Just enough funhouse distortion to make everything un-understandable.

It has been quite a while now, but a jaded critic once referred to our site as The Bleep Bloop Review. We credit you!

Today we bid adieu to Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Crossfit psycho who bewitched America with her homemade stew of Qanon zingers and blood libel.

We bring you good tidings! There might be an Israel-Hamas ceasefire agreement, and George Santos is being freed from political persecution in an American hoosegow.

In this week’s best-of roundup, we think about Rainer Maria Rilke, the ontology of God, and Italian pop music from the 1970s.

Diana Ross, Simone Weil, and our beloved Scaramucci go head to head in this week’s round-up of reading recommendations.

In a time of goblin mode, we think about C.S. Lewis, Christian apologetics, and Nancy Fraser.

Crypto shenanigans, Special Forces drug-running, Paddington the Bear and the unlikely revival of the bald ibis in this week’s reading recommendations.