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• Joel Cabrita, author of The People’s Zion, spoke with the BBC World Service program Africa Today about the multiracial roots of the Zion Christian Church (ZCC), the biggest independent black church in southern Africa [at 28:34].
• An essay at The Stranger used Quinn Slobodian’s Globalists to analyze the French racial dynamics highlighted by the national team’s recent World Cup victory.
• Sulmaan Wasif Khan, author of Haunted by Chaos, defined “grand strategy with Chinese characteristics” on The American Interest’s podcast.
• Steptoe Cyberblog’s Cyberlaw Podcast interviewed Woodrow Hartzog about Privacy’s Blueprint [at 22:40].

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July 16: Stanley Cavell, Philosopher Untamed

Why not use the word “star,” Stanley asked in his breakthrough book on movies, The World Viewed, why not “the more beautiful and more accurate word,” rather than actor or actress? In philosophy he was a Hepburn, a Brando, a Dean, a Bacall, stars into whose souls he gave us entryways. I always thought of him and Hilary Putnam as the “glimmer twins.” Time was on their side, for so many decades, thank the lord. And on ours, too! We know he was here, and, alas, we know he’s gone now. Stanley attended monthly meetings of the Harvard University Press Board of Syndics. He dressed beautifully to attend our meetings, and he did his homework for them carefully, and spoke articulately on behalf of the books we had asked him to report on. And he would join the Press staff for or…