Pew Research has issued its periodic study on religion in the United States, and it appears something is changing. The decline of Christianity appears to have leveled off, and the reason might be due to the growing interest by young men.
The memo heard round the world: Jeff Bezos told the Washington Post staff this week that the opinion page would have two pillars – personal liberties and free markets. Reaction was swift. Some 75,000 subscribers canceled their subscriptions; the journalism community was outraged.
Add that to the upheaval going on in television news and commentary – in just the past week, Joy Reid lost her show on MSNBC, Lester Holt announced his retirement from NBC, and Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar learned their contracts on The View would not be renewed. The media landscape is fundamentally changing.
As I was working on my novel Brookhaven, published in December, I accidentally rediscovered Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. It wasn’t that he’d gone anywhere, but since the advent of modernism a century ago, his poetry hasn’t been held in the same regard it was in the 19th century. What happened for me was to see the 2022 movie I Heard the Bellsand reread Cross of Snow: A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2020) by Nicholas Basbanes. And then a character in the story began to recite Longfellow. This week, at Poems Ancient and Modern, Sally Thomas looks at Longfellow’s poem “The Children’s Hour,” and I find myself becoming re-enchanted.
More Good Reads
Israel
The Life and Death of the Oldest Hostage in Gaza – Matti Friedman at The Free Press.
American Psychological Association Slammed for ‘Virulent’ Jew Hate – Sally Satel at The Free Press.
British Stuff
Cloud control – Abhishek Saha at The Critic Magazine.
In the Roof of St. Paul’s Cathedral – Spitalfields Life.
Ex-church of England head Carey among clergy facing possible punishment over abuse scandal – Muvija M at Reuters.
Faith
The Depth of J.I. Packer’s Legacy – John Piper at Desiring God.
Good to Go – Mark Daniels.
Dumb Church – Stephen McAlpine.
Poetry
Detective Fiction Is the Purest Literature We Have – poem by Elizabeth Scott Tervo at An Unexpected Journal.
“The Leaden-Eyed,” poem by Vachel Lindsay – Joseph Bottum at Poems Ancient and Modern.
Writing and Literature
Desert Power – Erik Coonce at Mere Orthodoxy.
The 3 Lost Pieces of a Good Romance – Chloe Ann at The Radical Reader.
Understanding Evil with Cormac McCarthy and John Frame – Seth Troutt at Mere Orthodoxy.
Life and Culture
The Right is Changing Cancel Culture’s Rules – Christopher Rufo.
Adults with Disabilities Deserve to Work – Jill Escher at The Free Press.
The Documentary That Investigates Jerry Lewis’ Never Released Nazi Camp Clown Movie – Keith Roysdon at CrimeReads.
American Stuff
Grief in the White House – David Bannon at Front Porch Republic.
Thomas Jefferson’s Library – Neely Tucker at Library of Congress Blogs.
Lincoln’s “Second thoughts” on the Emancipation Proclamation – Kevin Donovan at Emerging Civil War.
Art
A Van Gogh drawing – with what is almost certainly the artist’s fingerprint – goes to auction at Sotheby’s – Martin Baily at The Art Newspaper.
Inside the Shadowy World of a Notorious Art Looter Who Evaded Justice – Min Chen at Artnet.
By focusing on Edvard Munch’s portraiture, London’s National Gallery reveals a different side of the Norwegian Expressionist – Alexander Morrison at The Art Newspaper.
Run and Run – Matt Papa, Matt Boswell
Painting: Man Reading, oil on canvas (1851) by Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier (1815-1891), The Clark Museum, Williamstown, Mass.
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