Saturday Good Reads – Nov. 29, 2025

A couple of weeks ago, I included a link here from The Wall Street Journal – an op-ed by a therapist who said that the so-called Trump Derangement Syndrome was a real thing. Now, he reports that, because of the article, he’s been receiving death threats. Which I suppose proves his point. 

Sarah Ashbach at New Verse Review has a rather wonderful review of the poetry of Benjamin Myers, comparing the collections’ themes to Vergil. Black Sunday, describing the 1930s Dust Bowl in Oklahoma, remains one of my favorite contemporary collections. 

 

David Warren is a writer who lives in the Toronto area, and he can often be found casting a contrarian eye toward what his government is up to. This week, he turned to a different subject. His father had accepted a teaching job in Pakistan, the family moved, and his father promptly got deathly sick. The school promptly cut off his paycheck, since he wasn’t teaching. The family was in dire straits – a sick father, no income, eviction looming, not to mention hunger. And then the American imperialists arrived.

 

More Good Reads

 

America 250

 

The Greatest Sentence Ever Written – Walter Isaacson at The Free Press.

 

Nathaniel Greene: Washington’s Strategist or Pioneering Operational Artist – Ben Powers at Emerging Revolutionary War Era.

 

American Spies and Sympathizers at Fort Detroit – Geoffrey Hoerauf at Journal of the American Revolution.

 

The Bible, the Pilgrims, & Our Liberty – Jerry Newcombe at the Institute for Faith, Work, & Economics.

 

The First Presidential Thanksgiving: Washington’s Vision for a Grateful Nation – Jason Clark at This is the Day.

 

Writing and Literature

 

How Dostoyevsky dissected activistic hypocrites – James Martin Charlton at The Critic Magazine.

 

David McCullough’s History Matters – Church Chalberg at The Imaginative Conservative.

 

The Logical Triumph of English – Henry Oliver at Works in Progress.

 

Faith

 

How Science Confirms a Literal, Historical Adam and Eve – Terry Mortenson at the Council on Biblical Manhood & Womanhood. 

 

Deep River, the spiritual – Anthony Esolen at Word & Song.

 

The Kind of Service God Requires – Simon Liu at Mere Orthodoxy.

 

News Media

 

Americans’ Social Media Use 2025 – Pew Research Center.

 

Art

 

Frenemies or rivals? The Britain show explore Turner and Constable’s turbulent relationship – Henry Tudor Pole at The Art Newspaper.

 

Life and Culture

 

Everything Was Once a Place – Brandon McNeice at Front Porch Republic.

 

Poetry

 

“A Certain Young Lady,” poem by Washington Irving and “Spellbound” by Emily Bronte – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.

 

Passage to Joy: The Use of Poetry – T.M. Moore at Front Porch Republic.

 

British Stuff

 

In defense of jury trials – Jame Price at The Critic Magazine.

 

Preaching is not a crime – Andrea Williams at The Critic Magazine.

 

American Stuff

 

One Immigrant Boy’s Journey from Cuba to the CIA – Martin Gurri at The Free Press.

 

Slow Down – Chuck Girard

 Painting: Portrait of a Young Man, oil on canvas (1517-18) by Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530); National Gallery, London.