You read a story like this, and you just want to weep. You want to believe that the FBI is all about nabbing the bad guys and keeping Americans safe, and then you read a story about Marcus Allen, an FBI man who did his job and questioned with FBI Director Christopher Wray had said under oath about Jan. 6. The FBI tried to obliterate him. The Inspector General of the Department of Justice investigated, and the net result was the FBI reinstated Allen’s security clearance, paid him 27 months of back pay, and proved to the American people that our premier law enforcement organization can no longer be trusted. You can watch his testimony before Congress, and you just mourn what our government has become.
Joe Carter at The Gospel Coalition explains how to understand the debate about late-term abortion.
More Good Reads
Life and Culture
Legends of the Fall – Paul Kingsnorth at The Abbey of Misrule.
How Harvard Divinity Teaches Hate – Robert Friedman at The Free Press.
British Stuff
Reading Winston Churchill – Peter Caddick-Adams at The Critic Magazine.
Art
Marie Lenclos’ Still Light – Spitalfields Life.
Writing and Literature
The Reader’s Quest: How literature helps us find meaning and understand the world – Henry Oliver at The Common Reader.
Tolkien Criticism Today, Revisited – Dennis Wilson Wise at Los Angeles Review of Books on two new books on J.R.R. Tolkien.
Poetry
“The Pitcher’s Arm,” poem by Benjamin Myers – Joseph Bottum at Poems Ancient and Modern.
The Seven Secret Poets Everybody Should Know – Joseph Pearce at The Imaginative Conservative.
Dusk – C. Walker at Society of Classical Poets.
“Song in the Key of Autumn,” poem by Scudder Middleton – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.
Faith
Slow and Costly in a World of Fast and Cheap – Darryl Dash at Dashhouse.
Life in the Rear View – Greg Doles at Chasing Light.
Why Do the Evangelicals Rage? – Samuel D. James at Digital Liturgies.
American Stuff
A Thousand Words a Battle: The Underground Railroad – Chris Heisey at Emerging Civil War.
Once Upon a Time in America: Deborah’s Theme by Ennio Morricone, Eunice Cangianiello violin
Painting: Man Reading Newspaper, il on wood (circa 1900) by Konstantin Stoitzner (1863-1933).
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