Media Diet (Version 1.0)
Every so often I get asked about my media diet and thought I would put a little list together by category.
Spiritual Reading - Everyday my first reading priority is spiritual reading. Most of my devotional Bible reading is from the New Living Translation Catholic Edition. The translation is fluid, clear, and natural English (See Why the NLT is Good, actually). I don’t subscribe to any particular reading program and mostly just hop from book to book reading a pericope or two a day. Also continually return to the Bhagavad Gita. Currently enjoying Paramahamsa Yogananda’s translation.
Fiction - I’m always reading fiction, mostly novels. Reading through Brandon Sanderson’s Cosmere books with my wife for the foreseeable future. We take a break after we finish one of these to read something different. Last time we had a break between Sanderson books I read Herman Hesse’s Siddhartha and Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes.
Non-fiction - Always have some other non-fiction book going. Philosophy, theology, economics, and history most regularly. Currently Norman Stone’s Hungary: A Short History.
Newspapers and News Magazines - I subscribe to both The Economist and the New York Times both of which are excellent despite their blind spots. Coverage of the Catholic Church leaves much to be desired from both those publications so I supplement them with The Pillar.
Magazines - Another blind spot of The Economist and the New York Times is writing from the conservative/libertarian perspective. There are a bevy of excellent smaller publications, many of them free, which fill this gap including Civitas Outlook, The Daily Economy, The Dispatch, The Freeman, FUSION, Law & Liberty, National Affairs, Public Discourse, Reason, Religion & Liberty, Religion & Liberty Online, and The University Bookman.
Next iteration I do of this I will include something about blogs, audio, video, and social media.
