As you can tell from often-included links here at Saturday Good Reads, I am a subscriber to The Free Press. It’s edited by former New York Times staffer Bari Weiss, who quit the Times when it was clear it had abandoned journalism, not unlike most of the legacy media (print and television). The Free Press still practices traditional journalism, ignores sacred cows, doesn’t make itself an extension of a political party, tackles serious and often underreported stories, and doesn’t think its most important audience is itself. Weiss was one of the journalists who reported on the Twitter files, when Elon Musk opened them up, and we all got to see just how much the major social media took their marching orders from the federal government. So, if you were a Free Press reader, the outcome of the Tuesday’s election was no surprise.
As more information about the COVID pandemic makes its way into the public domain, we’re now seeing some of the damage that was done, how many dissident voices turned out to be correct, and how little of what was forced on us turned out to be based on science. Matt Taibbi at Racket News discovered that, despite the warnings of the head of the CDC and the President, there was no “pandemic of the unvaccinated.” William Briggs at Science Is Not the Answer considers what the panic did science.
Did you know that there’s an annual convention for the fans of Nancy Drew mysteries? Jadie Stillwell and Nicole Blackwell at Literary Hub attended one to find out what it was all about.
More Good Reads
Life and Culture
A Warning About Having Children – Jessica Burke at Story Warren.
Donald and the Pincer: 'Why did this happen?' and other obvious questions – Paul Kingsnorth at The Abbey of Misrule.
Israel
Last Night’s Pogrom in Amsterdam – David de Bruijn at The Free Press.
Poetry
Cosy – Sonja Benskin Mesher.
Auden’s Island: The poet in the postwar era – Alan Jacobs at The Hedgehog Review.
“A Chubby-Cheeked, Shabby-Blazered Colossus.” How Dylan Thomas Influenced Generations of Poets – Dai George at Literary Hub.
“A Poet to His Baby Son,” poem by James Weldon Johnson – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.
Origin Story – Kelly Belmonte at Kelly’s Scribbles.
Faith
Nadya Williams and the Good News – Jon Schaff at Front Porch Republic.
How to Pray After Election Day – John Pletcher at the Institute for Faith, Work, & Economics.
All Will Be Well – Andrew Klavan at The New Jerusalem.
The Church’s Unsung Hero: The Sunday School Teacher – Trevis Wax t The Gospel Coalition.
British Stuff
Why was I the only reporter? On the sentencing of the Rotherham grooming gang – Charlie Peters at The Critic Magazine.
We Shall Fight in the Buttery: Oxford’s War 1939–1945 by Ashley Jackson – review by Nicholas Rankin at Literary Review.
Writing and Literature
A Name Nerd’s Guide to Agatha Christie – Naomi Kaye at CrimeReads.
B&N on Track to Open 60 Bookstores This Year – Jim Milliot at Publisher’s Weekly.
News Media
The Game Really Is Up for the Mainstream Media (Just Like Last Time) – Stephen McAlpine.
Nah Neh Nah – Vaya Con Dios
Painting: Portrait of a Man Readings, oil on canvas by Paul Kotlarevsky (1883-1950).
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