Friday's News & Ideas - 2/24/2023
- Religious support for abortion rights
- Wartime trauma in Ukraine
- Rod Dreher in Hungary
- Women’s voices in film
- What’s the point of homework?
- Battle in Buy Nothing groups
Support for abortion rights is strong, even among most religious groups
Religion News Service: The outliers are white evangelicals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Latter-day Saints and Hispanic Protestants.
PRRI: Abortion attitudes in a post-Roe world
When there are no words: Talking about wartime trauma in Ukraine
The Conversation: As the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine approaches, one thing is clear: The destruction the war has wreaked upon Ukrainians over the last 12 months is so catastrophic that the country will be dealing with the humanitarian consequences for the foreseeable future.
The ‘Dreher Affair’ highlights the right’s international networks
Religion Dispatches: Right-wing Christian blogger and media figure Rod Dreher has moved to Hungary, where he continues to admire Viktor Orbán, the country’s authoritarian prime minister whom he’s called “one of the most extraordinary world leaders of our time.”
When women speak more than truth*
Christian Century: “She Said” and “Women Talking” examine the collective power of women’s words for a MeToo era.
Nobody knows what the point of homework is
Vox: The homework wars are back.
The Spark
There’s a war going on in your local Buy Nothing group
Buy Nothing’s “core values”* have changed in recent years: strict neighborhood boundaries, once a central tenet, were suddenly up for debate; the founders even formed a public benefit corporation, tried to move operations onto a proprietary app, and trademarked their name, Curbed says.
*access is limited for nonsubscribers
