Chris Martin, who has a regular column at Substack, is always worth reading. One of his latest posts: 5 Takeaways from the Facebook Papers. He doesn’t mention one that is more omission than commission: Facebook was up to its eyeballs with the Jan. 6 riot in Washington. It may have had more to do with the coordination of what happened than Parler. (But neither Apple nor Google have said anything about de-platforming Facebook.)
Changing its name may be nothing more than a promotional ploy (and one designed to divert attention from its troubles), but Facebook knows the metaverse is coming. Ian Harber and Patrick Miller at The Gospel Coalition suggest ways to prepare for it – and they point out that early versions are arriving with games like Pokemon Go.
Stephen Crane published The Red Badge of Courage in 1895 – some 30 years after the end of the Civil War. He was asked by The Companion, a popular magazine in the 1890s that published stories by almost every important American writer, to submit a story. And he did, one entitled “An Episode of War.” Paul Auster calls it “one of the most astonishing war stories in American literature.”
More Good Reads
Faith
The Reformation of English: How Tyndale’s Bible Transformed Our Language – Scott Hubbard at Desiring God.
A Year of Sorrow, a Year of Gratitude, a Year of Grace – Tim Challies.
Lift Up Your Head – Seth Lewis.
Practicing Resurrection in Grave-clothes – Lore Wilbert at Sayable Sayable.
Writing and Literature
Poe: America’s “Artificer” – Jonathan Elmer at Public Books.
Editing for Inclusion – John Gilsrap at Kill Zone Blog.
The Life Issues & the Witness of Walker Percy – Thomas Hubert at The Imaginative Conservative.
News Media
What happens when the news desert is in your own backyard? – Joshua Benton at Nieman Lab.
Poetry
Watercolour class – Sonja Benskin Mesher.
The Sturgeon – Paul Brookes at The Wombwell Rainbow.
The L-Shaped House, Packard Avenue, Flint, Michigan – Karen Paul Holmes at Tweetspeak Poetry.
The Mystery of the Amber Room – Brian Yapko at Society of Classical Poets.
Life and Culture
Modern Fascism Revisited – Gene Edward Veith at Tabletalk Magazine.
Is Patriotism Worth Preserving? – Steven Smith at Real Clear Public Affairs.
Archaeology’s burial: On the politicization of archaeology – Peter Wood at New Criterion.
British Stuff
Burdekin’s London Nights – Spitalfields Life.
Lewis Capaldi - Before You Go – The Piano Guys
Painting: Old Man Reading Book, oil on canvas by Joaquin Agrasot (1836-1919).
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