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.

A New Word for Our Age: Polycule
In The European Conservative, Jonathon Van Maren explores the case of a pink-haired German female pastor marrying four men from three countries and at least two different religions “in the eyes of God” outside Berlin’s St. Paul the Apostle Church. Writes Van Maren with formidable restraint: “It is a snapshot of cultural collapse.” The union is known as a “polycule” and, some suspect, is aimed at gradually normalizing polygamy.

