We’ve seen the news reports and social media videos – climate change activists or pro-Palestinian protestors attacking pieces of artwork – Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” and DaVinci’s “Mona Lisa,” to mention two. Then there was the slashing attack on the Cambridge University portrait of Sir David Balfour, author of the Balfour Declaration on Israel, the painting being attacked by a young woman wearing a $1,400 designer backpack (the protest of privilege). An editorial at New Criterion puts the Balfour attack into perspective.
John Spencer at Newsweek points out something that no one covering the war in Gaza and Israel has previously reported – Israel has created a new standard for urban warfare. Susan Feigenbaum, of the University of Missouri-St. Louis, wrote an op-ed column about the casualty numbers reported by the Gaza (Hamas) Health Authority and repeated without question by the news media: the number don’t add up.
If you visit Scotland after April 1 (and this is no April Fools joke), you better be very, very careful as to what you say, or even what you may see in the theater. David Robertson at The Wee Flea explains.
If you’d like to see media bias in action, read what might have been a rather useful article in Axios: Shards of glass: Inside media’s 12 splintering realities. Consider how the authors label each group, and which “shards” have the more flattering labels.
More Good Reads
Israel / Gaza
An Insider’s Guide to the Most Important Story on Earth – Matti Friedman at Tablet Magazine (2014). Mattis Friedman’s stories for The Free Press are here.
The United Nations’s ceasefire call will only strengthen Hamas – Limor Simhony Philpott at The Spectator.
Why the Oldest Hatred Persists – Michael Mandelbaum at American Purpose.
American Stuff
RFK’s Tribute to a Slain Hero – Douglas Murray at The Free Press.
The Odyssey of Claggett Fitzhugh – Kevin Pawlak at Emerging Civil War.
Life and Culture
If you watched certain YouTube videos, investigators demanded your data from Google – Chase DiBenedetto at Mashable.
Inside the New Wave of Old-School Education – Julia Steinberg at The Free Press.
Banning the Blockers – Bernard Lane at Quillette.
Twilight of the Wonks – Walter Russell Mead at Tablet Magazine.
The Case Against the Abortion Pill – Rachel Roth Aldhizer at First Things Magazine.
Faith
The Dead Sea Scrolls, the Book of Esther, and the Argument from Silence – Michael Kruger at Canon Fodder.
William Wilberforce and England’s forgotten saints – Beatrice Scudeler at The Spectator.
Resentment Between Men and Women in the Church: 4 Observations – Samuel D. James at Digital Liturgies.
A Really Real God – David Bannon at Front Porch Republic.
News Media
Why is the Same Misleading Language about Youth Gender Medicine Copies and Pasted into Dozens of CNN.com article? -- Jesse Signal at Singal-Minded.
Poetry
“When I Have Fears” by John Keats – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.
Both Sides Now – Joni Mitchell (filmed live in 2000)
Painting: Three Women in Church, oil on mahogany wood (1882) by Wilhelm Leibl (1844-1900).
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