It was one of those weeks in Britain where reality caught up with official narratives maintained by the government, the courts, the police, and the news media. A member of the House of Lords, Baroness Casey, issued a long-awaited report on the grooming gangs scandal. The entire nation has been shamed, writes Adam LeBor at The Critic Magazine; Sebastian Milbank calls it Britain’s Gotterdammerung. As if the scandal itself isn’t enough, there’s also a deeper scandal, says The Wall Street Journal in an editorial. And though it’s been known since 2007, the fact that hundreds if not thousands of young girls were groomed, raped, and trafficked by primarily Pakistani immigrants only became a British national issue because of one man: Elon Musk.
Lots of America 250 news happened this past week. The U.S. Army turned celebrated its birthday; it’s an institution that has shaped America’s history and identity. This week also was the 250th anniversary of the bloodiest battle in the entire American Revolution, the Battle of Bunker Hill. While the colonists officially lost the battle, they more than held their own, demonstrating that farmers, blacksmiths and shopkeepers could fight professional soldiers. They were also helped by not the most astute British leadership. And one man stood at the heart of the battle. The week also marked the anniversary of George Washington accepting command of the Continental Army. And Michael Cecere at the Journal of the American Revolution has a colony-by-colony assessment of how the other colonies reacted to the Battle of Lexington and Concord.
And it’s official: for the first time ever, social media has passed television as the top news source for Americans, according to the Reuters Institute. You can read the entire report here, which includes news patterns in other countries and a swath of related information.
More Good Reads
America 250
Book Review: Under Alien Skies: Environment, Suffering, and the Defeat of the British Military in Revolutionary America by Vaughn Scribner – John Gilbert McCurday at Journal of the American Revolution.
Tacitus in the Colonies – Bradley Birzer at The Imaginative Conservative.
American Stuff
America’s Golden Age: A Return to Permanent Things – Kevin Roberts at The Imaginative Conservative.
Battle of New Orleans: The American Agincourt – Harrison Mark at World History Encyclopedia.
Life and Culture
Blue States Used to Lead in Education. Not Anymore – Neetu Arnold at City Journal.
The South is a Neolithic Fort – Brian Miller at Notes from an East Tennessee Farmer.
Faith
The History & Heresy of Pelagianism – Dean Kooper at the Institute for Faith, Work, & Economics.
God’s Good Design for Marriage: 5 Doctrinal Dimensions – Robert Yarbrough at Desiring God.
Belloc the Pilgrim – Joseph Pearce at The Imaginative Conservative.
Kids with Creeds – Seth Porch at Desiring God.
Poetry
Late Spring Bloomer – poem by Megan Willome at Poetry for Life.
“Wynken, Blynken, and Nod,” poem by Eugene Field and “My Heart Leaps Up,” poem by William Wordsworth – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.
The Nameless and the Faceless of the Civil War – poem by Lisa Samia at Emerging Civil War.
Art
How Van Gogh’s nephew exchanged two of the artist’s drawing for butter and bacon – Martin Bailey at the Art Newspaper.
“Every Day” by Buddy Holly – PS 22 Chorus
Painting: Bookworm (1926) by Norman Rockwell (1894-1978).
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