It’s an accusation – charge – insult – attack tossed around with abandon these days – calling someone a “hater.” Its general purpose is to shut down debate, or change the conversation if someone’s questions get too close to what someone else doesn’t want to talk about. One big category of people routinely called “haters” is Christians. But as Michael Kruger at Canon Fodder reminds us, that particular accusation has been around for a long tome – like from the beginning.
In case you hadn’t noticed or heard, crime is up. Like everywhere. There are a lot of reasons, but the pullback of police since 2020 (already underway since 2014) and the dismissal of charges by urban and suburban prosecutors are two significant reasons. There’s also an exodus from police forces and the drying up of sources of new police recruits. Leighton Woodhouse at The Free Press has the story on America’s police exodus.
One of the arguments against school choice proposals is that they discriminate against rural school districts, which don’t have the choices that urban and suburban school districts have. Not so, says Robert Pondiscio at the Thomas Fordham Institute. Rural school choice is more common than you think.
More Good Reads
Writing and Literature
Communities of Memory – Hans Zeiger at Front Porch Republic.
Does Historical Accuracy Matter in Historical Fiction? – Mark Ellis at CrimeReads.
Faith
January’s for Reflecting, Not Resolving – John Onwuchekwa at Four in the Morning.
Lovers of Good: Eyes of Hope in a World Gone Bad – David Mathis at Desiring God.
The Reality of Fear and the Presence of Reality: Suffering and Cultural Renewal – Jake Meador at Mere Orthodoxy.
Life and Culture
Recapturing Higher Education: On the plan to transform New College of Florida into a classical liberal arts institution – Christopher Rufo at CityJournal.
Irked by Skyrocketing Costs, Fewer Americans See K-12 as Route to Higher Ed – Greg Toppo at The 74.
The European Way to Die – Michel Houellebecq at Harpers Magazine.
Poetry
This Side of Eternity – Anna Arredondo at Society of Classical Poets.
Little Blue Transistor Radio – Yusef Komunyakaa at Oxford American.
The Bells of Lübeck – Iris Ann Lewis at The High Window.
Ukraine
Putin’s plan to freeze Europe has failed – Owen Matthews at The Spectator.
Many tanks: Ukraine needs the arms required to win – Patrick Caddick-Adams at The Critic Magazine.
Good Evening, We Are from Ukraine: The Subversive Radicalism of a Viral Wartime Slogan – Maria Sonevytsky at Los Angeles Review of Books.
Civil War
Why the Union Army Had So Many Boy Soldiers – Frances Clarke & Rebecca Jo Plant at Smithsonian Magazine.
Film
The Truly Epic Story of How the Battle of Helm's Deep was Filmed – Hannah Shaw-Williams at SlashFilm.
History
World's Oldest Rune Stone Found in Norway – Bård Amundsen at Science Norway.
British Stuff
The Juvenile Almanack – Spitalfields Life.
Against the HRification of history: Handwringing about “relatability” divides more than it unites – Fred Skulthorp at The Critic Magazine.
In the Valley (Bless the Lord) - Sandra McCracken and City Alight
Painting: The Short-Sighted Woman, oil on canvas (1903) by Alfred Stevens (1823-1906).
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