“Many journalists who hold progressive beliefs are no longer interested in reporting on or exploring stories that they think could injure the people who they share beliefs with.” So writes Clemente Lisi at Get Religion, a site devoted to exploring how the news media cover religion. This particular story is about an FBI memo that you never heard about, one that said so-called “radical” Catholics were dangerous and a threat to American public life.
I just read that there are already more than 300 titles listed on Amazon that were “written” by ChatGPT. Lincoln Michel at Counter Craft writes about a literary magazine that has had to close submissions because of a flood of AI-produced articles and stories. The future of writing is here, and we have no idea how to deal with it.
Speaking of the future already being here, we seem to be moving closer and closer to possible war over the Ukraine. Washington won’t acknowledge it, of course, but that doesn’t mean it’s real. The Critic Magazine in the United Kingdom published an editorial this past week, saying that serious choices are going to have to be made soon.
More Good Reads
Poetry
Hands on the Wheel – Aaron Smith at Cultural Savage.
I Need to Tell You About My Interesting Brother – Ted Gioia at The Honest Broker.
Poet and Philosopher David Whyte on the Deeper Meanings of Friendship, Love, and Heartbreak – Maria Popova at The Marginalian.
Things Worth Remembering: How Boris Pasternak defied Soviet tyranny with a Shakespeare sonnet – Douglas Murray at The Free Press.
Eros – James Matthew Wilson at First Things Magazine.
Faith
Church History Isn’t Boring (You’re Just Doing It Wrong) – Doug Ponder at Sola Ecclesia.
The Danger of Pursuing a Perfect Church – Trevin Wax at The Gospel Coalition.
Is the Earliest, Most Complete Hebrew Bible Going on Auction? – Kim Phillips at Text and Canon Institute.
British Stuff
A medieval tale of the jester, the priory and the hospital: book uncovers church's history for 900th anniversary – John Goodall at The Art Newspaper.
News Media
The Respiration of Internet Culture: A theory of how the internet works – Chris Martin at Terms of Service.
Can the NYTimes Save Itself? A Good Sign – Rod Dreher at The American Conservative.
Writing and Literature
The Best Plot Twists in Mystery – Rupert Holmes at CrimeReads.
Roald Dahl Can Never Be Made Nice: Rewriting his novels is about corporate safetyism, not social justice – Helen Lewis at The Atlantic.
Ukraine
The War in Ukraine in Eight Photos – Peter Savodnik at The Free Press.
Narrative Warfare: How the Kremlin and Russian news outlets justified a war of aggression against Ukraine – Atlantic Council.
American Stuff
Meet the American who fought and bled at the Alamo but lived to tell its heroic tale: Slave Joe – Kerry Byrne at Fox News.
Remembering Gone with the Wind in World War II – Sheritta Bitikofer at Emerging Civil War.
The Mission / How Great Thou Art – The Piano Guys
Painting: Man Reading on a Sofa, oil on canvas by Louie Burrell (1873-1971).
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