The Week's Top Five (April 29)

Well, this last week certainly showed sad new levels of (to use Francis Schaeffer's word) "stupid-wicked" in the culture. From politics, business, government schools, the publishing field, the incredibly inept and easily corrupted Nebraska Unicameral, and more, we see the deterioration continue at a dramatic pace. However, I don't try to chronicle the culture slide in this feature; I only suggest 5 articles (actually, one of them this week is a video link) as a healthy "sanity check."

The Top 5:

1) The inhumanity of the green agenda: The ‘sustainability’ regime is impoverishing the world. (Joel Catkin, spiked!)

2) Do We Even Know We Are All Socialists Now? In the end, perhaps the best definition of socialism is simply “The endless war against merit.” (Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness)

3) Who was the real Martin Luther King, Jr.? King: A Life is the first comprehensive biography of the black civil rights hero to appear in more than thirty years (David J. Garrow, Spectator)

4) Top Republicans Explain: How GOP Candidates Should Be Talking about Abortion (Suzanne Bowdey, Washington Stand

5) Right here is a link to the first in a series of 5 Hillsdale College lectures on the Inklings. It is "Who Are the Inklings?" By Bradley Birzer.