Welcome to The Light, your quiet hour of reflection.
At the Reykjavik Summit, two men sat across from each other with the weight of the world between them. The new film The Brink of War, starring Jeff Daniels and Jared Harris, revisits that extraordinary moment when Reagan pressed Gorbachev not only on arms reduction, but on something quieter and harder to negotiate — the freedom to believe.
From the gravity of history, we turn to something lighter, and perhaps more honest about the human condition. The rapper Wordsplayed has been posting deadpan food influencer reviews of fast food chains — Little Caesars, Cook Out, KFC — with the full theatrical sincerity of a Michelin critic. It is absurdist, warm, and quietly brilliant.
And then there is Brian Carn, a televangelist who declared publicly just last month that he would never spend a day in jail. He has now been imprisoned after pleading guilty to obstructing the IRS over more than six hundred thousand dollars in unpaid taxes. There is an old word for the distance between what we proclaim and what we live. It is simply: humility.
That is this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
