It almost seems a contradictory thing, but when it comes to public education, it’s the progressives and those of a more liberal political persuasion who take the traditionalist, conservative stance and defend the status quo – even if the status quo is not working well. A recent study looked at one of the largest school systems in the United States, that of New York City, and concluded we need to rethink the whole concept of public education. Ray Domanico at the Manhattan Institute has the story.
Another seeming contradiction: big corporations (like the one I retired from) embracing pretty what some call “woke politics.” Writer Paul Kingsnorth explains it: progressives were always part of the corporate elite.
Historically, the U.S. military draws its recruits from the more conservative regions of the country, like the South and Midwest. But something is happening across all service branches: no one wants to join the military anymore. And there are reasons, says Jeff Groom at The Spectator.
More Good Reads
Life and Culture
In Praise of Printed Journals, Newsletters, and Ephemera – Brian Miller at A South Roane
Agrarian.
How Connectivity Made Us Miserable – Samuel D. James at Digital Liturgies.
Repairing the Rents of History – Jeffrey Bilbro at Front Porch Republic.
The American dream can be achieved if we spend more time building strong, stable families—Brad Wilcox & Chris Bullivant at USA Today.
The Abolition of Man (and Woman) – Paul Kingsnorth at The Abbey of Misrule.
British Stuff
The Alleys of Old London – Spitalfields Life.
Bull and Mouth Inn, Northumberland House, French Church and Aldersgate: City of London Blue Plaques – A London Inheritance.
After Disenchantment: C.S. Lewis, Sally Rooney, and the Perennial Hunger – Cornelia Powers at Image Journal.
American Stuff
Catherine the Great Takes Notice of the American Revolution – Eric Sterner at Emerging Revolutionary War Era.
The Story Behind One of the Most-Mocked Paintings in U.S. History – Samantha Basking at Smithsonian Magazine.
The Horrors of Slavery at the Constitutional Convention – Bradley Birzer at The Imaginative Conservative.
Faith
We need to be more sparing about when we shout ‘fire’ – Stephen Kneale at Building Jerusalem.
Scrooge and the Economics of Abortion – Anna Reynolds at Crisis Magazine.
Poetry
For Then – Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera, translated by Cheryl Corey at Society of Classical Poets.
Christianity and Poetry – Dana Gioia at First Things Magazine.
Writing and Literature
Edmund Wilson’s Big Idea: A Series of Books Devoted to Classic American Writing. It Almost Didn’t Happen – David Skinner at National Endowment for the Humanities.
Black kids should study Larkin – Tomiwa Owolade at UnHerd.
London and the Long, Dark Shadow of Charles Dickens – Simon Toyne at CrimeReads.
News Media
News engagement plummets as Americans tune out – Neal Rothschild and Sara Fischer at Axios.
May It Be (Enya / Lord of the Rings) – VOCES8
Painting: Man Smoking Pipe, oil on canvas (1872) by Claude Monet (1840-1926).
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