Saturday, October 12, 2024

Saturday Good Reads - Oct. 12, 2024

This past Monday was the first anniversary of the Oct. 7 atrocity led by Hamas in Israel. Much has changed in the past year: Hamas is teetering, Hezbollah is leaderless and reeling, and their patron Iran is now waiting for the expected Israeli retaliation for its massive missile attack. We’ve also learned that anti-Semitism is alive and well in the United States, especially on the campuses of our so-called elite universities.  

Here are a few of the reflections on Oct. 7 and its aftermath. 

 

The View from Israel’s Universe – Michael Oren at Clarity.

 

Can Israel Win Back What October 7 Took? – Matti Friedman at The Free Press.

 

Black Sunday: Reckoning with Oct. 7 a year later – Uri Kurlianchick at The Spectator.

 

Jonathan Sacks on the Improbability of Israel – Douglas Murray at The Free Press.

 

Meeting a Survivor – Jonathan Dunsky at The Jewish Book Council.

 

A Year of Revelations – Bari Weiss at The Free Press.

 

A Year Without Empathy – Mich Baum at Sundial / Columbia University.

 

More Good Reads

 

Writing and Literature

 

Edgar Allan Poe’s Literary War – Harry Lee Poe at The Imaginative Conservative. 

 

A Label for My Father – Hope Coulter at Literary Matters.

 

From Beowulf to Foucault: The Literary Influences of Cormac McCarthy – Michael Lynn Crews at Literary Hub.

 

A Brief History of the Rise in Horror in 19th Century America – Jeremy Dauber at CrimeReads.

 

Unpacking My Library (Again) – Michial Farmer at Front Porch Republic.

 

Faith

 

Goya’s Drowning Dog – Rod Dreher.

 

With chain saws and supply runs, ‘faith-based FEMA’ responds to Hurricane Helene – Bobby Ross Jr. ay The Christian Chronicle.

 

Neither Despair Nor Blind Optimism – James Williams at GS Discipleship. 

 

When the Trees Fall – Jon Hyatt at Mere Orthodoxy.

 

News Media: What has happened to the network of Murrow and Cronkite?

 

How is CBS Marking October 7? By Admonishing Tony Dokoupil – The Free Press. 

 

The Fallout at CBS Continues – Bari Weiss and Oliver Wiseman at The Free Press.

 

CBS ’60 Minutes’ airs two different answers from VP Harris to the same question – Brian Flood and David Rutz at Fox News.

 

CBS: from the Tiffany Network to the cheap discount bin – Chalres Lipson at The Spectator.

 

Poetry

 

“Without and Within,” poem by James Russell Lowell – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.

 

My Mother’s Diary: “Uncloudy Day” – Megan Willome at Poetry for Life.

 

“Variations of an Air” by G.K. Chesterton – Joseph Bottum at Poems Ancient and Modern.

 

British Stuff

 

A Ramble Through Long-Forgotten London – Spitalfields Life. 

 

Pass Me Not – The Soil and Seed Project



 
Painting: The Hermit, oil on canvas (1643) by Salomon Koninck (1609-1656)

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