The Challenge and Promise of Reflective Patriotism

Source: Law & Liberty
by Justin Buckley Dyer

“There are two kinds of love of country, Alexis de Tocqueville observed in Democracy in America. The first is a ‘sort of patriotic attachment’ that arises from the natural affections a man has for his birthplace and is ‘united to a taste for ancient customs, and to a reverence for ancestral traditions of the past.’ This kind of patriotism is instinctive, unreflective and transient. The second ‘springs from knowledge; it is nurtured by the laws; it grows by the exercise of civil rights.’ A man who loves his country this way understands that his own well-being is bound up with the prosperity of his country.” (10/06/26)

https://lawliberty.org/book-review/the-challenge-and-promise-of-reflective-patriotism/

Thomas L. Knapp

Scientist who hunts mysterious ghost particles in the Antarctic ice wins Nobel Prize for physics

Source: SFGate

“Belgian-born scientist Francis Halzen won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for his efforts to demystify a rare group of neutrinos, tiny cosmic particles that researchers believe offer clues to how the universe evolved. ‘It was a great surprise, and I obviously didn’t expect it,’ Halzen said, speaking to the Nobel Physics Committee by phone from Italy, in a call broadcast at the news conference to announce the winner. Halzen, a physicist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the U.S., said the work was a massive collaborative effort. He was working on a research proposal when the Nobel committee called just before lunchtime. ‘I hope that this prize will help getting it approved,’ he said to chuckles from the audience. Neutrinos are tiny cosmic particles with no electric charge and extraordinarily small mass, making them difficult to detect.” (10/06/26)

https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/nobel-prize-in-physics-to-be-awarded-in-stockholm-22464191.php

Steve Trinward

Catholic Integralism Is a Brutal Dead End. Will Gen Z Repeat It?

Source: The Daily Economy
by Paul Mueller

‘A growing subculture is determined to subordinate America to the authority of Catholic theology. But this project has been tried before: it ends in predictable horrors.” (10/06/26)

https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/catholic-integralism-is-a-brutal-dead-end-will-gen-z-repeat-it/

Thomas L. Knapp

Jim Bakker, 1940-2026

Source: Washington Post

“Jim Bakker, a televangelist who once led a multimillion-dollar religious empire with his wife, Tammy Faye, before a sex sandal tarnished his reputation and a conviction for fraud and conspiracy sent him to federal prison, died Oct. 5. He was 86. His second wife, Lori, announced the death but not cite a cause or say where he died. He had a stroke in 2020. … Tammy Faye died in 2007. Their son Jamie changed his first name to Jay and became a tattooed, body-pierced preacher in Minneapolis who espoused somewhat liberal social views. In addition to his wife and son, Mr. Bakker’s survivors include a daughter from his first marriage, Tammy Sue Bakker Chapman.” (10/06/26)

https://archive.is/rLyTI

Thomas L. Knapp