Morning Belz, Sept. 28
Bruenig on liberalism, religion and wokeness — Yascha Mounk*
The Marshall Plan model didn’t work in Afghanistan — WSJ 🔒
U.S corn harvest is 18% complete — Successful Farming
How Eldridge Cleaver endorsed Reagan in 1984 — Daily Beast
Woman started Fawn Fire while boiling bear urine* — KPIX**
Shipping container shortage! — Globe and Mail
2020 footage of Ammon Bundy supporting BLM — Twitter
*In this conversation, Bruenig is reluctant to go hard into “wokeness,” and instead focuses on liberalism, and its claims, and the ways it deals with threats to itself, including “religion” and “wokeness.” Very interesting.
**according to police
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“Only outside Western Europe does youth football remain pre-Cruyffian. Around 2013, a kids’ indoor soccer tournament in Rockville Centre, New York, found itself a referee short. One of the organizers asked the parents: Does anyone know the rules well enough to call a game? A Hispanic-looking man in a baseball cap volunteered. But he turned out to interpret his role rather broadly. He kept stopping the game to advise both teams on positioning. The watching parents, who had come to see their kids win, grew antsy. ‘Come on! Let them play!’ they shouted. The guy in the baseball cap, on sabbatical in New York after four draining seasons at Barca, was Pep Guardiola.” — Simon Kuper, “The Barcelona Complex,” 2021