Interest in Sherlock Holmes stories seems to come and go in waves. Steven Doyle at Crime Reads argues that, for the last 50 years, it’s been one big wave that has never stopped – and it started in 1974, with a book: The Seven-Per-Cent Solution by Nicholas Meyer.
It was one of those headlines that, in these days of carelessly tossing around charges of “Hitler!”, caught my attention: Jonathan Kantor at Listverse cites ten companies that supported the Nazis and that are still around. I expected to see German companies on the list (no surprise there), but the one coming in at Number 10 was a real surprise.
Our State Department, back in 2016, the last year of the Obama Administration, got itself in the combating misinformation business. It set up a small center to supposedly counter misinformation on the global scene. Well, like all good government projects, it kept growing and extending its reach, really taking off in the last three years. And much of its activity has gone domestic and is aimed at news media who don’t tow the media narrative. Life is full of surprises. A House committee reports on what the State Department has been up to, despite the ongoing resistance to releasing information it has to under law, and which includes how it has tried to smear journalists for doing their jobs.
More Good Reads
American Stuff
The Spirit of American Constitutionalism – Gregory Ahern at The Imaginative Conservative.
Faith
Thinking Biblically in All Areas of Life – Doug Eaton at Fight of Faith.
Lose the Gospel, Return to Childishness – Carl Trueman at First Things Magazine.
Appreciate the Days He’s Ordained – Melissa Edgington at Your Mom Has a Blog.
“I saw myself a mass of sin”: the real battle in Western culture – Michael A.G. Haykin at Historia ecclesiastica.
Writing and Literature
The Magic of Maigret – A.E. Gauntlett at Crime Reads.
Life and Culture
Mistaking Politics for Religion – Martin Gurri at The American Spectator.
Poetry
“Mists in Autumn,” poem by James Thomson – Salley Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.
Raft – Ted Kooser at Literary Hub.
Art
The Big Review: Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers at the National Gallery, London and Ten surprises at the National Gallery’s five-Star Van Gogh exhibition – Martin Bailey at The Art Newspaper.
Notes on darkness – Sonja Benskin Mesher.
British Stuff
Reject the culture of death – Jacob Phillips at The Critic Magazine.
Pastores Dance – Igor Moiseev Ballet
Painting: La Lecture, oil on canvas (1888) by Berthe Morisot (1841-1895).
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