The St. Louis Post-Dispatch announced last week that the editor of the editorial page, Todd Robberson, was retiring. Like most chain-owned papers of its size, the Post-Dispatch is distinctly liberal / progressive, and its op-ed page (not to mention its news pages) has become almost exclusively a showcase for Washington Post writers. If I wanted to read the Washington Post, I’d subscribe to it. Robberson was liberal in the old sense of the word; there was an occasional editorial that didn’t simply attack Republicans and addressed serious failings of city, county, and state government.
That was then, however, and I’m not hopeful for the future. We’ve already seen the appearance of a guest Washington Post editorial. In an unrelated, or perhaps related, development, Gallup announced the findings of its latest survey: Americans’ trust in the news media remains near a record low; for the first time, the number of people with no trust at all in the media has surpassed the number with a great deal or fair amount of trust combined.
Alex Gutentag at Tablet Magazine argues that the problems of public education can be traced to at least one significant event largely missed some 60 years ago, when teacher unions started to be legalized. See “How the Teachers’ Union Broke Public Education.”
There have been a few cases in the United States, notably a certain senator from Massachusetts and an NAACP official in Washington State, but we haven’t seen many examples of people pretending to be of races they are not. And then there’s Canada, with its considerably smaller population. John Wilson Foster at The Critic Magazine writes about the so-called “pretendians” and the crisis of the self.
If there is a geographic birthplace of the American artistic imagination, writes Michael De Sapio at The Imaginative Conservative, it was a rarely small area in the Northeast. Specifically, it was the Hudson River Valley.
More Good Reads
Writing and Literature
Charles Williams in Letters & Remembrances – Cicero Bruce at The Imaginative Conservative.
Subjective, Objective – Paul Hughes at Poet and Priest.
Anna Karenina, David, & Happiness – Jeffrey Stivason at Gentle Reformation.
Life and Culture
A Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century: Thirteen ways of looking at disinformation – Jacob Siegel at Tablet Magazine.
Problems with Preferred Pronouns – Alan Schlemon at Stand to Reason.
British Stuff
Wells, Somerset – A Cathedral, Water and Swans – A London Inheritance.
How gown destroyed town: The decline and fall of the dreaming spires and their replacement by shuttered shops, sad cafés and mothballed pubs – Alexander Larman at The Critic Magazine.
Poetry
Verily – Bruce Beasley at Kingdom Poets (D.S. Martin).
Why We Should Read Poetry – Daniel Dorman at Mere Orthodoxy.
Half the Night, a poem on growing old – Cynthia Bernard at The Society of Classical Poets.
Faith
Four Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me at Graduation – Hugh Whelchel at the Institute for Faith, Work, & Economics.
We’re Commanded to Love Our Neighbors, Not to Make Them Feel Loved – Doug Ponder at Sola Ecclesia.
Water into Wine? Is John's account of the wedding of Cana historically credible? – Shane Rosenthal at The Humble Skeptic.
News Media
‘Lou Grant’ and The Newspaper Business’s Moment on Primetime TV – Keith Roysdon at CrimeReads
Evening Prayer – The Piano Guys
Painting: Just a Couple of Girls, oil on canvas by Harry Wilson Watrous (1857-1940)’ Brooklyn Museum.
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