The New York Times had a surprising report this week about the war in Ukraine. The newspaper reported that the United States was far more deeply involved from the beginning, and that the Biden Administration both misled and outright lied to the American people about U.S. involvement and the threat of nuclear war. As one pundit noted, it was U.S. General Mark Milley who was calling the shots.
Still another international surprise: Western media have been criticized for accepted war casualty figures reported with both immediacy and specificity by Hamas (or its health authority) in Gaza. One example: some 70 percent of the deaths have been reported to be women and children. This week, Hamas quietly revised the numbers; 72 percent of the deaths turn out to be combat-aged men. Notice the widespread coverage of the revision in American media? I didn’t either.
I’ve been watching a “equal protection under the law” train wreck approaching in Britain. The Sentencing Council, essentially a group of British judges who issue guidelines and polices for the court system there, was proposing a two-tier sentencing system – more lenient sentences for minorities and harsher sentences for whites for the same crimes. It was so bad (and causing such a bad public reaction) that even Keir Starmer’s Labour government was compelled to oppose the plan, even saying it would introduce legislation to stop it. Thankfully, the Sentencing Council has backed down. For now.
More Good Reads
Art
The art of experience: Caspar David Freidrich – James Steven Curl at The Critic Magazine.
Neater – artwork by Sonja Benskin Mesher.
Faith
What is Man? – Carl Trueman at The New Jerusalem.
Maintaining Friendships in a Lonely Age – Thomas Kidd.
Why Hospitality in the New Testament Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Does – Michael Kruger at Canon Fodder.
Be Wary of 1%-er Rhetoric – Just Poythress.
Writing and Literature
Demons and Monsters in George Bernanos – Cyril O’Regan at Church Life Journal.
Life and Culture
Secularist Violence in Modern History: An Interview with Thomas Albert Howard – Nadya Williams at Mere Orthodoxy.
The Other Cancel Culture – Dixie Dillon Lane at Front Porch Republic.
Restoring the Humanities: An Education That’s Not for Dummies – Joseph Pearce at The Imaginative Conservative.
American Stuff
Jay Bhattacharya Was ‘Dangerous.’ Now He Leads the NIH – Bari Weiss at The Free Press.
Stacking Arms: The Cockade City Unravels – Aaron Stoyack at Emerging Civil War.
America 250
Mapping the American Revolution and Its Era – John Sellers at the Library of Congress.
Patrick Henry: From the American Revolution to Saving the Union – John Ragosta at Ben Franklin’s World.
Poetry
Ad Astera – Jack Baumgartner at The School for the Transfer of Energy.
“Wind in the Grass,” poem by Mark Van Doren – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.
The Planets: Jupiter – Berklee Contemporary Symphony Orchestra Flash Mob
Painting: Woman at a Window, oil on canvas by Albert Andre (1969-1954, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
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