Sacred Treasure
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When Tolkien refused to work with a Nazi-leaning publisher.
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Since AI is the topic du jour (de l’an?), here are a few recent, good takes on it:
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Reliable as ever Phil the Simple Pastor rounds up a bunch of responses
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Andrew Roycroft on Treasuring the Process.
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The Culturist weighs cons AND pros here (some of which is $)
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Iain McGilchrist on AI vs the Human Soul (Unherd, £)
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Helen Lewis gathers some pundits who know about this stuff from the inside, one of which is:
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M. F. Robbins on The AI Apocalypse is Extremely Boring Now
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With the death of Wendell Berry announced on August 31st, here are a few tributes and appreciations:
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How Wendell Berry saved my life by Patrick Deneen, a political science professor at Notre Dame.
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Jake Meador on what he taught him about faith, love and marriage.
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Paul Kingsnorth over at First Things writes of Wendell Berry’s Eternal Story
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Instead of his own reflections, Ted Gioia shares Berry’s Nine Standards for Technological Innovation
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Tim Challies on why so many fallen pastors don’t walk away (HT Simple Pastor)
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Malcolm Guite explains why he’s crafting an Arthuriad for our age.
Topical Treasure
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What are the odds of living to old age at any place or time in human history: Remarkable: Any Human Ever.
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Churchill gave important instructions about brevity and clarity in reports and other documents in 1940 and again in 1951. But I fear we’ve gone too far these days…
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NATO is much in the news: its future is debated, its existence contested, and yet its membership is enlarged. This helpful map opens up what it actually gets up to.
Quirky Treasure
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Another Photography round up:
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50 years of Steve McCurry’s iconic photos (above)
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Gordon Parks captures segregationist America (below)
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Winners of the 2026 Minimalist Photography Awards
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Brick Lane and Spitalfields in 1980s London by Clive Murphy
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Riding the Last tube home in 1990s London by Mark McEvoy
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Blindness is no constraint for some: the remarkable Derek Rabelo, Professional Surfer
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This is v cool: a global Movie Scene Map – find out where different scenes were filmed.
