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Darryl Pinckney wrote a great piece on Barack Obama in the latest issue of the New York Review. He chronicles Obama’s rise to potential presidential nominee within the context of the “psychodrama of the Baby Boom generation.” Exactly.

Nicholas Wolterstorff’s new book is excellent. And it smells great, too (am I the only one for whom the act of reading is begun by opening the book, cracking the spine, and taking a whiff?). Even the footnotes are brilliant. And if your appetite needs whetting, you can read a lecture he delivered on human rights at the Reformed Institute of Metropolitan Washington, whatever that is.

Anecdotally, I finished his book on John Locke almost a year ago. After spending most of the week struggling through it, along with Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Wolterstorff happened to sit in front of me at church the following Sunday. That was some of the hardest peace I’ve ever passed.

But knowing a thing or two about Locke has made watching Lost a little easier. Yesterday I learned that all episodes are online, which means I won’t be leaving the house for several days.

Speaking of things online, Kevin Corcoran is blogging. He’s a professor at Calvin whose courses I never took, but lots of my friends did, and most of them like him. He also contributes thoughtful articles to Books and Culture from time to time.

I’ve also been reading Steve Matheson’s blog for awhile now. He’s one of those thoughtful Reformed folk who say brilliant things about religion and science and show why the Discovery Institute may have a thing or two to discover for itself. Like a less-ridiculous epistemology. And other stuff, too.