Saturday, April 20, 2024

Saturday Good Reads - April 20, 2024


I’m sure the people at National Public Radio feel like they’ve had better weeks. After business editor Uri Berliner’s essay in The Free Press last week, NPR CEO Katherine Maher suspended him for five days without pay. Then Berliner resigned. The conservative and independent press took a look at Maher and her history on social media, including what was called her “guide to the holidays.” Stephen Miller at The Spectator asked where all of Berliner’s defenders in the news media might be, while Matt Taibbi at Racket News took both The New York Times and NPR to task for burying the story’s lede. And Jonathan Turley at The Hill asked the biggest question overall (in my humble opinion): Should NPR rely on listeners rather than taxpayers like you? 

Boeing’s woes continue, with another whistleblower testifying about safety problems with the 777 and the 787 Dreamliner (like what we usually fly when we go to London). Maureen Tkacik at The American Prospect took a look at the revised statement by the whistleblower found dead of an alleged self-inflicted gunshot wound. And she describes what Boeing did to the guys who remember how to build a plane. And I keep thinking, this is Boeing!

 

Netflix has done what I thought was impossible: created a movie version of One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. You can watch the trailer here

 

More Good Reads

 

Israel

 

How Did the War Begin? With Iran’s Appeasers in Washington – Michael Oren at The Free Press.

 

Leonard Cohen: Hippie Troubadour and Forgotten Reactionary – Simon Lewson at The Walrus reviews Who by Fire by Matti Friedman. 

 

Passover 5784, reliving ancient history – David Horowitz at The Times of Israel.

 

Life and Culture

 

Inside the disinformation industry – Freddie Sayers at UnHerd.

 

Poetry

 

James Matthew Wilson on Bookmaking – Let Go the Goat. 

 

Wobbly, I am – John Kerrigan at London Review of Books on The Letters of Seamus Heaney, edited by Christopher Reid.

 

“Break, Break, Break,” poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson – Joseph Bottum at Poems Ancient and Modern.

 

Writing and Literature

 

Anthony Horowitz on Giving Himself a Role in His Latest Mystery – John Valeri at Crime Reads.

 

Think AI Is Bad for Authors? The Worst is Yet to Come – Mike Trigg at Writer’s Digest

 

Faith and Russian Literature – Gary Saul Morson at First Things Magazine.

 

Eugene Vodolazkin on the Puppeteering of History – Joshua Hren at Church Life Journal.

 

Faith

 

It’s Okay to Be a Two-Talent Christian – Tim Challies.

 

Your Faith is Secondhand – T.M. Suffield at Nuakh.

 

American Stuff

 

Taps: How a Medal of Honor Recipient Gave America Its Most Famous Military Bugle Call Ever – Stephen Ruiz at Military.com. 

 

British Stuff

 

In the Roof of St. Paul’s – Spitalfields Life. 

 

Sancte Michael – Gregorian Chant by Gloriae Dei Cantores



 
Painting: Reading the Standard, oil on canvas by Charles Spencelayh (1865-1958).

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