Quick Bites: Rethinking Slavery… Reconsidering Virginia Woolf… Child Abuse and the Catholic Church… Joe Rogan’s Secret… Another Insurrection Thwarted

1. The long history of slavery. For most of my life, I thought of slavery as something that began in America, with white people enslaving people of color. It wasn’t until I started reading about slavery in my 40s that I discovered I knew nothing about its history. In this short clip, Candice Owens provides a brief introduction.
2. Dazzled. Bewitched. Enchanted. I’ve never read more than a smattering of Virginia Woolf’s fiction because I decided, in college, that her writing was too “experimental” for me. Yesterday morning, however, I came across this in Letters of Note from Vita Sackville-West, Woolf’s lover, that persuaded me to reconsider.
3. Stephen Fry on child abuse and the Catholic Church. Click here.
4. What’s Joe Rogan’s secret? My theory: His authentic curiosity about such a wide range of topics. The curiosity helps him ask good questions. And the range of his interests is staggering. The combination is what made him the highest paid and most successful interviewer of all time. Here’s an example.
5. Another insurrection?Hundreds of people rushed into the US Capital complex Oct. 18 and remained there, chanting and ranting. For a moment, Capital Police thought it could be Jan. 6 all over again. But when they realized the crowd was there to support the Palestinian terrorists, they reclassified the event as a protest and relaxed. Click here.