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Article snippet: The political news cycle is fast, and keeping up can be overwhelming. Trying to find differing perspectives worth your time is even harder. That’s why we have scoured the internet for political writing from the right and left that you might not have seen. Has this series exposed you to new ideas? Tell us how. Email us at ourpicks@nytimes.com. • Rod Dreher in American Conservative: “Elites [...] wish to deny the religious basis of their respective cultures, and pretend that we’re all a bunch of universalists. We’re not, and never will be.” Mr. Dreher, a columnist who often writes about religious issues, found President Trump’s speech in Warsaw “not a bad speech, if somewhat anodyne.” However, to read the left’s response to the speech, he writes, you would think “it had been drafted by Dr. Goebbels.” The heart of the issue for Mr. Dreher and the president’s critics is Mr. Trump’s rhetorical and ideological positioning of Western civilization. Mr. Dreher defends the president’s “standing up for the West” against accusations that to do so is a “vicious, racist act.” (We’ve corrected this item after mistakenly writing that Mr. Dreher is Catholic. He’s Eastern Orthodox.) Read more » _____ • Jonah Goldberg in National Review: “Trump often does say crazy things. He does make stuff up — but usually not in prepared texts at big events.” According to Mr. Goldberg, some of the critical reactions to Mr. Trump’s speech in Poland can be attributed to historical ignorance — a fa... Link to the full article to read more