Notes & Gleanings: Nick Cave's Christianity, Evil as Transmissible Disease, and the Fallacy of Meditating for Improvement

Greetings, all. With today’s entry, I’m initiating a new format for these occasional posts full of links and commentary. In addition to using them as I’ve done the past—to present roundups of my recent reading and viewing, accompanied by commentary and reflection—I will now include a section titled “Notes,” consisting of items that I have recently published through Substack Notes, the company’s new Twitter-like feature for sharing shortform posts. The first section of each post like this will be...