A Chinese state photographer took the pictures. The film rolls were locked in a metal box. Somehow, the rolls made their way to the United States and placed in the hands of The Epoch Times. And now the photos on the films are being published – never-before-seen photographs of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing.
As we get closer to July 4, the stream of articles and posts about the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution is becoming a flood. Keli Holt at Just Enough History writes about the fall of Philadelphia and that winter at Valley Forge. Yuval Levin at The Coolidge Review explains why 1776 was both radical and conservative. John Barnes at The Imaginative Conservative draws a line from Runneymede in 1215 to Philadelphia in 1776. If you’re in the mood, you can visit an exhibition that lets you tear down (virtually) a statue of George III. And you can find more links below.
Today is the 82nd anniversary of D-Day. Two relatively little-known things helped make it possible. One was the Higgins boat, designed by a man who lived in my hometown of New Orleans. The other was a man named Juan Pujol Garcia, who went by the code name of “Garbo.”
More Good Reads
America 250
In the Ranks of the Revolution: James Johnston’s War – Lori Amos Doss & Harred Marlowe at Emerging Revolutionary War Era.
Thomas Jefferson’s Last Wish – Jane Kamensky at The Free Press.
Five Great Books on the American Revolution – Thomas Kidd.
Virginia Leads the Way, All the Way – Jonathan Horn at The Free Press.
The Undoing of Benedict Arnold and the Battle of Monmouth Courthouse – Keli Holt at Just Enough History.
Life and Culture
The Language of Drought and Duty – Colin Gillette at Front Porch Republic.
American Stuff
Can We Restore the Republic? – Bradley Birzer at The Imaginative Conservative.
The Long History of Gerrymandering in American Politics – Jerald Stubbs at Real Clear History.
Poetry
A Review of The Future of Love by John Poch – Benjamin Myers at New Verse Review.
Poetic Justices: The Poetry of United States Supreme Court Justices – Adam Sedia at Society of Classical Poets.
“Pied Beauty,” poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.
Welcome and Farewell – Andrew Roycroft at New Grub Street.
Writing and Literature
The Noble North – Joseph Pearce at The Imaginative Conservative.
British Stuff
Police policies must be reformed – David Spencer at The Critic Magazine.
Britain’s Reverse George Floyd Moment – Dominic Green at The Wall Street Journal (unlocked).
Faith
Strong to the End – Tim Challies.
Winston Churchill: Mentor for Our Times – Stephen Mansfield at Institute for Faith, Work, & Economics.
Sunday is Coming – Phil Wickham
Painting: Oil Woman Reading a Book, oil on canvas by Pieter van den Bosch (1613-1673), Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.
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