Matt Taibbi, writing in Substack, casts a critical eye at the American media’s response to the FBI’s railroading of General Flynn. For Taibbi, the Democratic Party and its media lapdogs have abandoned any pretence at protecting civil liberties. He thinks the

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.


