I love Ruth Rendell’s standalone novels but dislike the Inspector Wexford series.

Rendell’s Wexfords were way too liberal for me even when I was on the left. Each novel defends some leftist cause while portraying anybody the least bit conservative as a complete moron at best and an evildoer at worst. There’s a million novels in the series, and they are all equally preachy in the most predictable way.

Curiously, Rendell’s standalone novels are imbued with a deeply conservative sensibility. Look at what I wrote about The Face of Trespass the other day. It doesn’t get more Christian than what she does in that novel.

Before I exceed my limit, let me share this excellent tweet from the inimitable Robert Zubrin:

Elon Musk is working hard to get us to read books instead of mindlessly scrolling social media. That’s commendable but it’s truly a strange business model that seeks to prevent people from engaging with the platform.

Few things are more unintentionally funny than Russian people fretting about the fate of African Americans after the anti-affirmative action SCOTUS ruling.

If there was ever a bunch of people who have much more serious things to worry about, I struggle to imagine it.