It’s rare to see the major legacy media in full-blown propaganda mode, but, man, are they in that mode now. Maybe when the election’s over they’ll try to return to something approximating journalism. Take the story that almost didn’t happen. For two or three years now, we’ve been told “Crime is down! Crime is down!” And then the FBI try to quietly say by stealth editing its web site that the 2022 crime statistics had been revised. Instead of a 2.1% drop; there had been a 4.5% increase. Who covered the revision? The Tampa Free Press, the New York Post, Straight Arrow News, Washington Examiner, and a few others. I saw the story via Real Clear Investigations. Like the Washington Post says, democracy dies in darkness!
To no one’s surprise, Gallup reported that the American public’s trust in news media and Congress has hit an all-time low. But for the first time, trust in media has slipped below that for Congress.
Another inconvenient story: America’s fastest-growing criminal enterprise. Madeleine Rowley at The Free Press looks at sex trafficking, especially of women and children, fueled by the massive influx of immigrants via the southern border.
More Good Reads
Israel
The Hundred-Year Holy War – Eli Lake at The Free Press.
Sinwar’s Death Will Hasten the End of the War – Matti Friedman at The Free Press.
Art
St. Vincent: The acclaim is excessive but the talent undeniable – D.H. Robinson at The Critic Magazine.
An author’s waking nightmare: Van Dyck dreaming and color proofs of a shadowy masterwork – Bendor Grosvenor at The Art Newspaper.
Life and Culture
Why I Brought My Toddler to Watch SpaceX’s Flying Skyscraper – Tim Urban at The Free Press.
We Are in Need of Renaissance People – Victor Davis Hanson at The Free Press.
On “Public-Private Partnership” – N.S. Lyons at The Upheaval.
Poetry
Early Morning Train – Paul Wittenberger at Paul’s Substack.
Parting Gifts – Benjamin Myers at First Things Magazine.
I Drank Alone, ‘Neath the Spheres – Jared Gilbert at Frivolous Quill.
What is it Like? – poem by David Whyte.
Faith
In Unfriendly Territory: The Bible on Social Media – Rebekah Matt at Great and Noble Tasks.
Why Do People Deconstruct? Beware the Grand Theories – Trevin Wax at The Gospel Coalition.
A Key Discipline: Observe Without Judgment – Tim Challies.
Writing and Literature
Euripides’ Lost Plays – Alexander Lee at History Today.
The Stranger Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Joel Miller at Miller’s Book Review.
T.S. Eliot: Hope Beyond the Waste Land – Haylee Wuensche at The Imaginative Conservative.
Wheeler Catlett’s Love Beyond Organization in Wendell Berry’s “Fidelity” – Isaac Wood at Front Porch Republic.
The Other Side of the Keyhole: Russell Kirk’s Ghost Stories – Robert Woods at The Imagintive Conservative.
British Stuff
The Dead Man in Clerkenwell – Spitalfields Life.
A Beautiful Life – from the Netflix film
Painting: Woman Reading, oil on canvas by Alfred Stevens (1823-1906).
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