While many outside Britain understandably might not recall the brutal killing of MP David Amess last October, Tom Slater points out in Spiked that many Britons also have trouble with the details. Reminder: it was a terrorist act by a Jew-hating Islamic radical. Slater laments the wider effort to “depoliticize” such matters, i.e., suppress open discussion of the facts.

When the Waves Turn the Minutes to Hours
John R. Grove commemorates the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald with a moving meditation on Gordon Lightfoot’s song memorializing the disaster and its 29 forever-lost victims. Lightfoot’s poetry and melody in The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald not only hauntingly convey the tragedy’s essential elements but, Grove writes in Law & Liberty, open a window to the sublime.


