[Fuusm-l] Today's Issues Readings for May 23, 2021

[Ted Goertzel]

The Today's Issues group continues to meet at 9:30 on Sunday mornings in
the parlor of the Religious Education building next to the church.  All the
regular participants are fully immunized.  For this Sunday, May 23, 2021 we
will be discussing two essays.  Please do the reading and join our lively
discussion.  Printer friendly copies of the readings are attached.

>From the June issue of The Atlantic, page 52, Clint Smith, "The War on
Nostalgia: Why Confederate Lies Live On"
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F99UJeQ95ZPYIFsbC-f5AH8pM9nnE102PnUp2s5OfdA/edit?usp=sharing>
*The Myth of the Lost Cause is passed down like an heirloom.  What would it
take for the truth to break through?*  A discussion of nostalgia for the
Confederacy.

>From the New York Review of Books, May 27 issue, page 10, Jessica Matthews,
"Losing no Time
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tAXslUIPRXrwJu2xRSNNK0EuCE5EGfhiz7BLj1qs_Ms/edit?usp=sharing>
,"
*In his first hundred days President Biden has been bold, decisive, and
willing to take risks in his foreign policy judgments, but his early
mistakes on Iran and Taiwan may have dangerous consequences.*
p. 10  Biden's climate proposals.  Losing no Time.
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