* Queen Elizabeth II (1926-2022) has died, at the age of 96, having recently greeted the 15th Prime Minister of her reign. When she became Queen, Truman was still the President of the United States; she was queen for almost a third of the US's existence. She was the longest reigning queen in all of recorded history. She is succeeded by King Charles III. (There was some question as to whether Charles would use 'Charles' as his regnal name, but it has been confirmed.) He will have big shoes to fill.
* Kevin Vallier, The Moral Imperative of School Choice
* Michelle Cyca, The Curious Case of Gina Adams looks at another case of someone pretending to be a member of an Indigenous tribe to collect benefits
* Suzy Weiss, Hurts So Good, looks at the strange phenomenon of teenage & college-age girls self-identifying as Sick
* Jessica Keating Floyd, Making Pregnancy Safer, at Commonweal
* Thornton Lockwood, Aristotle on Intra- and Inter-Species Friendships (PDF)
* Ed Condon, Is the Order of Malta still 'sovereign'?, at "The Pillar"
* Brendan Hodge, The (papal) saints come marching in, at "The Pillar"
* Wyatt Emmerich looks into the causes of the Jackson Water Crisis, noting in particular that the water treatment plants have been running extremely short-staffed since at least May.
* Joshua P. Hochschild, Porphyry, Bonaventure, and Thomas Aquinas: A Neoplatonic Hierarchy of Virtues and Two Christian Appropriations (PDF)
* Francisco Toro, How Not to Write a Constitution, looks at the recent defeat in Chile of a proposed constitution. The thing was apparently 170 pages long, 388 articles, a very large portion concerned with nebulous matters rather than specific procedures.
* Conor Casey, Constitutional Design and the Point of Constitutional Law (PDF)
* Rosina Filippi, Duologues from Jane Austen's Novels. Filippi is usually credited as the first person to attempt to make dramatic adaptations of Austen; her adaptations became very popular for drawing-room entertainment. It's interesting to see the passages she picked.
