I first came across writer Paul Kingsnorth through his fiction (Beast, The Wake, and Alexandria) and then his poetry. He’s also written non-fiction (works like Savage Gods and Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist). In recent years, he’s turned to reading and writing about what he calls “the machine,” not a mechanical device but a way of describing the force that has taken over culture and society. His first full work on the subject is Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity, and Mere Orthodoxy has published two reviews of it: “Imagining Life Outside the Machine” by Jeffrey Bilbro and “After the Machine” by Rhys Laverty.
Most if not all of us know the story of Paul Revere’s ride (“The British are coming! The British are coming!”). At least, we know the version we learned from reciting (and often memorizing” the poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The historical ride didn’t happen exactly as Longfellow described. Karissa Waddick at USA Today rode along the actual route to determine what really happened. Me, I prefer Longfellow’s version.
Sixty years ago, a television program aired that became one of the most popular Christmas shows ever, so popular that it’s been repeated every year since. Carolyn Pirtle ay Church Life Journal asks, and answers, what made “A Charlie Brown Christmas.”
More Good Reads
America 250
The Search for Shirer’s Ferry, South Carolina – Stephen Khn Katzberg at the Journal of the American Revolution.
Life Under British Occupation During the American Revolution – Deborah Lynn Blumberg at History.
In Colonial America, Patriots Flocked to Coffeehouses to Debate Politics and Sow the Seeds of Revolution – Laura Kiniry at Smithsonian Magazine.
Thomas Paine, Common Sense, and a Plan for America – Jett Conner at the Journal of the American Revolution.
British Stuff
Speechcrime: On Britain’s Authoritarian Turn – Theodore Dalrymple at City Journal.
George Cruikshank’s London in Winter – Spitalfields Life.
Writing and Literature
Robert Louis Stevenson’s Art of Living (and Dying) – Trenton Olsen at Literary Hub.
C.S. Lewis’s Aeneid: A Labor of Love – Anthony Esolen at The Imaginative Conservative.
In Norman Maclean’s Life, There Was No Clear Line Between Beauty and Tragedy – Gen Sharp at Front Porch Republic.
Faith
The Belgian Priest who Saved 400 Jews – Menucha Chana Levin at Aish.
Poetry
Longfellow – poem by Kevin Parks at Society of Classical Poets.
“Talk,” poem by Stephen Vincent Benet, and “Sea-Fever,” poem by John Masefield – Joseph Bottum at Poems Ancient and Modern.
Two Crooked Streets: A Proposed Genealogy of Noir Poetry – Boris Dralyuk at Liberties.
American Stuff
On the Road to Atlanta: Am English Poet at Peach Tree Creek – Dave Powell at Emerging Civil War.
Life and Culture
Is our education system radicalizing young men? – Michael Young at The Spectator.
‘A Recipe for Idiocracy’ – Rose Horowitch at the The Atlantic (via MSN).
Fading to Dust in Slow Motion – Jeff Johnson
Painting: Reading the Story of Oenone, oil on canvas (1883) by Francis David Millet (1846-1912); Detroit Institute of Arts.
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