If we didn’t know before, or simply turned a blind eye to it, now we know what “free Palestine” and globalizing the intifada really mean. A veteran of far-left causes and protests murdered a young couple at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. Welcome to the Global Intifada, writes Bari Weiss at The Free Press. It is an evil spreading in the West, and I’ve seen it among people I know on Facebook. We all need to confront it, stand up to it, and call it what it is.
A week ago yesterday, a Friday afternoon turned into death and destruction right here in St. Louis. Our church was in the tornado’s path but only had minor damage and some downed trees. The heavily treed neighborhood it’s in has lost a lot of that leafiness, but the storm widened and intensified as it crossed the northwest corner of Forest Park, cut through St. Louis’s Central West End, and then sliced its way through north St. Louis. Five people were killed, and more than a thousand buildings were damaged or destroyed. The storm crossed the Mississippi into Illinois, disappearing somewhere near the city of Edwardsville. The path was measured at a mile wide and 23 miles long. The St. Louis History Museum reminds us that this area is no stranger to tornadoes, some far worse than this one.
I posted on Facebook this week about the Chicago Sun-Times published a summer reading book list that had been generated by AI and contained books which didn’t exist. NPR explains what happened, and it wasn’t only the Sun-Times that was affected.
More Good Reads
America 250
Shots Heard Round the World: America, Britain, and Europe in the Revolutionary War by John Ferling – review by Sam Short at Journal of the American Revolution.
Major John Dyk and the Bones of Major John Andre – Part I – Jeffrey Collin Wilford at Emerging Revolutionary War Era.
The Army of Observation Forms: Spring 1775 in Massachusetts – Michael Creeve at the Journal of the American Revolution.
Life and Culture
Attacking Jews at Harvard Doesn’t Just Go Unpunished. It Gets Rewarded – Johanna Berkman at The Free Press.
The Rot at Disney Goes Deep – Stevn Watts at Compact Magazine.
Poetry
Why poetry? Poetry is true in a false world and Ringsend, a Poem on the Funeral of Paul Durcan– Andrw Roycroft at New Grub Street.
Raving Punctuation – Jerry Barrett at Gerald the Writer.
“My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun,” poem by Emily Dickinson – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.
Window Light – Adam Whipple at Rabbit Room Poetry.
“On the City Dump,” poem by Benjamin Myers – Ken Hada at High Plains Public Radio.
Faith
Alasdair MacIntyre 1929-2025 – Russell Arben Fox at Front Porch Republic.
Lies Parents Believe – Casey McCall at Remembrance of Former Days.
The Not at All Secret History of Nicaea – Susannah Black Roberts at Mere Orthodoxy.
AI Makes Me Doubt Everything – Tim Challies.
History
The Fall of Acre and the End of the Crusades – Roger Crowley at History Today.
The forgotten story of France’s greatest war hero – Anthony Peregrine at The Telegraph.
Writing and Literature
Woolfish Perception – Henry Oliver at Liberties on Virginia Woolf’s essays.
When in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes – Anthony Esolen at Word & Song.
The Secret Link Between Raymond Chandler and P.G. Wodehouse – Arvind Ethan David at Literary Hub.
Nearer My God to Thee – Andre Rieu
Painting: Old Man Reading a Book, oil on canvas, Circle of Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669).
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