Things That Glow in the Dark, by David Warren

By David Warren, The Catholic Thing, July 17, 2020

David Warren is a former editor of the Idler magazine and columnist in Canadian newspapers. He has extensive experience in the Near and Far East. His blog, Essays in Idleness, is now to be found at: davidwarrenonline.com.

Like many readers of this column, I suppose, I am often in a quandary about what I have read in the “media.”

This is not precisely the rage some report, but rather a kind of irritated perplexity. I genuinely want to know what is going on. And this, whether the news is good or bad. But I must ask myself such questions as, “Whom do I trust least?”