Google has had better weeks. Gemini, its AI program, had a few “technical glitches.” Like how it depicted historical figures, equated Elon Musk and Hitler, and said a journalist wrote a story he actually didn’t write, to mention only a few examples. Ian Leslie at The Ruffian points out all of this reminds us that office politics still matter. For its part, Google apologized, but the problems went far beyond “technical glitches” and reflected a deeply entrenched political bias at the company with the most used search engine on the planet.
Bari Weiss, former journalists with The New York Times and now editor of The Free Press, gave the “State of World Jewry” lecture at the 92nd Street Y in New York City. Entitled “What It Means to Choose Freedom,” the lecture takes a hard look at anti-Semitism, Jews in America, and the broader meaning of freedom.
And speaking of The New York Times, Benny Morris at Quillette explains how the newspaper misrepresents the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, while Jenny Holland at Spiked! describes what happened when journalism met what sounds a lot like a Maoist struggle session in the Cultural Revolution. (Hint: journalism didn’t win.)
More Good Reads
Faith
Reading 100-Year-Old Books – Alex Pinelli at The Imaginative Conservative.
Is Classical Education Revitalizing Christian Culture? – Stephen Turley at The Imaginative Conservative.
When a Baby is a Disease – Matthew Hosier at Think.
The death of charity? – Stephen Wigmore at The Critic Magazine on the decline of Christianity on Britain.
News Media
The age of the news influencer – Fred Skulthorp at The Critic Magazine.
Life and Culture
How Bad Therapy Hijacked Our Nation’s Schools – Abigail Shrier at The Free Press.
Slavery: America’s “Original Sin”? – Dwight Hughes at Emerging Civil War.
In Defense of Livestock – John Klar at Front Porch Republic.
Marijuana use linked to higher risk of heart attacks and stroke – American Heart Association News.
Abandoned Altars – Ryan Davis at Front Porch Republic.
Poetry
Rebecca, Who Slammed Doors for Fund and Perished Miserably – Joseph Bottum at Poems Ancient and Modern on the poem by Hilaire Belloc.
The Path is No Path: On Not Becoming a Poet – Brian VanDyke at The Millions.
‘The Marble Angel’ and ‘The Cow by the River’ – Martin Rizley at Society of Classical Poets.
Ancestral – David Whyte.
Writing and Literature
“Livelier Than You Are, Whoever You Are”: The School of Resentment is ascendant but ephemeral; the Western Canon may yet endure – Corbin Berthold at City Journal.
Summer of ’42 – Michel Legrand
Painting: Reading Sibyl, oil on canvas by Simone Cantarini (1612-1648).
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