I had lunch recently with a former work colleague who asked me what AI writing tools I was using. “I’m not,” I said. She was shocked. “But you were always the early adopter when it came to technology and online platforms.” And I was. But I’ve drawn a line for writing with AI. I can’t help running into it when I used Google; Apple wants to update my operating system for AI; and Microsoft is desperate for me to use CoPilot in my Word documents. But my attitude is thanks, but no thanks. Nadya Williams at Front Porch Republic has a similar resolution, but she’s discovering that it’s becoming harder to write because of the AI invasion.
When I look at the news these days, I see schizophrenia at work. The confirmation hearings of President Trump’s appointees are an example. You look at reports from The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the Associated Press, and the Washington Post, and they read like one long unmitigated disaster for the new Administration. Then you see online reports with extended videos of the hearings, and it looks like the nominees are more than holding their own. If the legacy media didn’t sound like such an organized chorus, I might believe what they’re reporting. But if I’ve learned anything about the news media in the past decade, it’s that you need to verify everything they report. Ben Domenech at The Spectator argues that the legacy media have yet to understand the shift in credibility, and the recent election may have been their death knell.
Shane Rosenthal at The Humble Skeptic reports on an artifact close to my home. A cuneiform cylinder in the collection of the St. Louis Art Museum dates to the reign of Nebuchadnezzar II. And it reads remarkably like the events recorded in the Biblical book of Daniel.
More Good Reads
Writing and Literature
Why Absolute Truth is Still Worth Pursuing in a Narrative-Driven World – Dwyer Murphy at CrimeReads.
The Exorcism of Bilbo Baggins – Ryan Patrick Budd at The Imaginative Conservative.
How to Raise Readers, in Thirty-Five Steps – Brad East at Front Porch Republic.
News Media
The Tyranny of Now – Nicholas Carr at The New Atlantis.
Andreessen: Substack and Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover Broke the Social Media Censorship Dynamic – Tom Hains at Real Clear Politics.
Our Promise to You – Editorial at The Free Press.
Life and Culture
Things Worth Remembering: ‘We Fell Morally Ill’ – Douglas Murray at The Free Press.
The Gulf and the Silence – Paul Kingsnorth at The Abbey of Misrule.
A Future for the Family: A New Technology Agenda for the Right – First Things Magazine.
American Stuff
The Great American Debate Begins Again – Martin Gurri at The Free Press.
What Happened When DEI Came to the Military? – Madeleine Rowley at The Free Press.
The California fires and the reckoning on liberal governance – editorial by The Spectator.
Poetry
Close and Slow – Andrew Roycroft at The Sounding Board on poet Michael Longley.
“Fog,” poem by Robert Hillyer – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient & Modern.
“A Song for Simeon,” poem by T.S. Eliot – The Rabbit Room.
Faith
I Know God’s a Writer – Brianna Lambert at From Glory to Ordinary.
No One’s Born to Preach: The Myth of Pulpit ‘Gifting’ – David Mathis at Desiring God.
You Raise Me Up – Drakensberg Boys Choir
Painting: Copenhagen Tram, oil on canvas by Paul Gustave Fisher (1860-1934).
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