After about a year my home family has watched all of Agatha Christie’s Poirot, and a couple seasons of Columbo. Why now? I’m not sure, but Alan Jacobs' recent The Integrity of the System intrigues me.
| ❝ | [Sayers] makes a fascinating suggestion: that while stories about crime always have flourished and always will flourish, stories of detection depend on the reader’s confidence in the basic integrity of the forces of law and order. |
Maybe it’s therapy. Re-read the essay for more nuance.