1. AP: Publisher and Two Secular Writers Hacked to Death in Bangladesh
2. From an interview with a Serbian iconographer who painteda tribute to the 21 Coptic Christians beheaded byISIS earlier this year:
It came into my heart, this story and the pictures — they are really striking. It’s somehow a story we know already from the history of martyrs. The whole example, to me, of staying by God and staying by Christ and being proud of it, staying in that love, is the most powerful example. I take these kinds of stories as very personal, and they mean a lot to me as someone who is Christian.
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October’s migrant and refugee flow to Europe roughly matched whole of 2014: UN https://t.co/4kgCWiopyDpic.twitter.com/bXNpzlO3xR
— CBC News (@CBCNews) November 2, 20154.
Smart. Now any way to remind you to bring the large “to-read when I have time” @NewYorker pile on your next flight? https://t.co/OCqw3LmIlr
— Betsy Fischer Martin (@BFischerMartin) October 31, 20155.
GOP candidate debate requests are modest — too modest. Lost chance to restructure these cattle calls and cage matches.
— Larry Sabato (@LarrySabato) November 2, 20156. Sol Stern on 20 years of reporting on New York City schools.
He reminds me of the important book, Lost Classroom. I Q&Aed the authors here.
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“You are here to kneel where prayer has been valid” https://t.co/kbwu0V5JCw
— Alan Jacobs (@ayjay) November 2, 20158. Arthur Brooks writes about academia:
Improving ideological diversity is not a fundamentally political undertaking. Rather, it is a question of humility. Proper scholarship is based on the simple virtues of tolerance, openness and modesty. Having people around who think differently thus improves not only science, but also character.
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Whether in politics or life, the folks who build themselves up by tearing others down usually regret it. Low form of whining
— Chuck Todd (@chucktodd) November 2, 2015PLUS: My latest syndicated column is about mercy and politics.
I wrote on the recent synod on the family in Rome and things over the weekend here.