Body Language, John Wilkes, and Dorothy Sayers: The Best Articles of the Week
To help you decide what to read this weekend, here are the best articles I read this week.
12. Filmmaker Eli Steele on how he overcame deafness.
11. An apt metaphor for President Biden.
10. How author Joel Miller recently reorganized his home library. (For another method, see my piece on the purely chronological approach, which Miller seems to have once used.)
9. Why Pride Month was more subdued this year.
8. If you have the option to live anywhere, here are characteristics of a hometown to consider.
7. The events of the life of controversial eighteenth-century English politician John Wilkes seem to me to have much in common with what is happening in American politics today, so I am pleased to learn that a new biography of him has just been published. Earlier this year I wrote about Wilkes as a Trumpian figure.
6. The power of saying “yes.”
5. New Testament scholar Michael F. Bird considers whether Jesus was buried.
4. Peggy Noonan on the exposure of the true state of Biden’s health.
3. An unsettling report on Biden’s health.
2. A body language expert interprets the presidential candidates.
And now, the best article of the week: For several years, I have treated myself to a Peter Wimsey story once a year. My enjoyment of those stories piqued my interest in this article on their author, Dorothy Sayers, who was much more than a mystery writer.