It’s a little-known, small chapter in American history. Fairly early in the Civil War, the Union instituted a national draft. A monastery in western Pennsylvania wrote to President Lincoln, seeking an exemption from the call-up. Lincoln said no, and monks faced the military draft This is what happened.
In 1666, right about this time of September, a fire started at a baker’s shop in the City of London. And thus began what came to be known as the Great Fire of London. But like all major and catastrophic events, a number of legends grew up. Jo Rowan at Sky History describes nine little known facts about the fire, including where it actually began.
The biggest scourge afflicting America, if government is to be believed, is misinformation, and especially misinformation about the upcoming election. All kinds of committees, think tanks, plans, and schemes have been devised to combat it. The question is – who defines what misinformation is? We know what happened during the COVID pandemic – what passed as medical orthodoxy, harshly enforced on social media and against almost anybody questioning it – turned out to be misinformation itself. Abigail Shrier at The Free Press looks at social media and government censors and how well they do, and don’t, work.
More Good Reads
Writing and Literature
“The Crocodile,” Dostoevsky’s Weirdest Short Story – Emily Zarevih at JSTOR Daily.
Classical Education and Great Literature – Joseph Pearce at The Imaginative Conservative.
Reinstating Mystery to The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Tim Major at CrimeReads.
What T.S. Eliot’s Letters to Emily Hale Reveal About the Poets’ Romantic Past – Sara Fitzgerald at Literary Hub.
Human Dominion in Kipling’s Just So Stories – Michial Farmer at Front Porch Republic.
American Stuff
250th Anniversary of the First Continental Congress – Emerging Revolutionary War Era.
Book Notes: Lincoln’s Rise to Eloquence – Civil War Books and Authors.
Life and Culture
A Rural White American’s Reflection of White Rural Rage: Resentment is Toxic – Bradyn Srawser at Front Porch Republic.
My experience as a homeschooler – Ella Johnson at The Spectator.
Negative Epistemology and the “Outer Ring” – Samuel D. James at Digital Liturgies.
Poetry
The Shallows – poem by Michael Stalcup at Rabbit Room Poetry.
Jude Bloomfield’s Poems of Place – Spitalfields Life.
Wombwell Rainbow Book Interviews: Poet Kelly Davis – The Wombwell Rainbow.
“London, 1802,” poem by William Wordsworth – Adam Roberts at Poems Ancient and Modern.
All Things – Sovereign Grace Music
Painting: The Love Letter, oil on canvas (1878) by Haynes King (1831-1904).
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