It’s difficult to find anything in print or online these days that doesn’t mention the word “polarization.” It’s lamented, wept over, editorialized about, commented on, written about, broadcast about, tweeted, and posted about. R.R. Reno, the editor at First Things Magazine, made a rather provocative statement about polarization this past week, that it is not a problem but a symptom. The problem that it’s a symptom of is the reality that “the credibility of our ruling class has eroded.”
Shakespeare wrote great plays, but a lot of people have written great plays and not become world-famous like Shakespeare. How did it happen? Andrew Murphy at The Independent says it was publishers who made Shakespeare’s reputation.
George Macdonald and his works had a defining impact on both C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Dr. Kristen Jeffrey Johnson, a leading authority on Macdonald, says the Scottish author started out life as a farm kid and built a lifetime of relationships. See her interview at Radix Magazine.
More Good Reads
Writing and Literature
Diagnosing Billy Pilgrim: On Tom Roston’s ‘The Writer’s Crusade’ – Hannah Gersen at The Millions.
Why I didn’t Start a Substack – Micah Mattix at The Spectator.
The Life and Times of Iconic Cuban Novelist José Lezama Lima – Gabriel Pasquini at Literary Hub.
The Hidden Life of Ignatius J. Reilly – Christian McNamara at Front Porch Republic.
A Place Where The Unwordable Happens: The Novels Of Russell Hoban – Mathre Lyons at The Quietus.
Life and Culture
We Need More Families – Joel Kotkin at Spiked Online.
Ted Lasso and the Temptation of “Aww, Shucks” Idealism – Chris Schumerth at Front Porch Republic.
Into the Metaverse – Samuel James at First Things Magazine.
The vaccine moment, part one – Paul Kingsnorth at The Abbey of Misrule.
Poetry
C.S. Lewis: A Sonnet – Malcolm Guite.
Sometimes It’s Easy to Know What I Want – Julia Spicher Kasdorf at Kingdom Poets (D.S. Martin).
How to Ready Seamus Heaney: Part 1 and Part 2 – Andrew Roycroft at The Rabbit Room.
Farewell to Berwyn – James Matthew Wilson at New Criterion.
Faith
How Much Foes a Good Deed Weight? – Seth Lewis.
Sociology as Theology: The Deconstruction of Power in (Post)Evangelical Scholarship – Neil Shenvi at CBMW
Once Upon a Time in the West (Ennio Morricone cover) – Steffi Vertriest
Painting: Captivated, oil on canvas (1875) by Adolphe Alexandre Lesrel (1839-1929).
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