I’m not a big hockey fan, but I cheered along with (most of) the rest of America when the USA team defeated Canada and won the gold medal in the Olympics in Milan. The algorithms at Facebook and Instagram noted my interest and filled my feeds with reels, posts, photos and news reports. And then came the Huffington Post and its coverage. I suppose there will always be one Ebenezer Scrooge shouting “Bah! Humbug!”
When the American Revolution began, colonists had a choice – join, resist, or stay out of it. Quakers usually avoided participation, but one, Abraham Carlile of Philadelphia, hose active support of the British when they occupied the city. When the British army abandoned the city the following year, Carlile remained, believing he’d doing nothing wrong. And that decision turned out to be a mistake.
If you’re interested in Medieval history, you might be interested in what Andrew Roycroft is starting at New Grub Street. He’s beginning a series on the Medieval period, starting with a discussion of Piers Plowman by William Langland. I haven’t read the poem since taking English literature in college some 50 years ago, and I think I’ll revisit it.
More Good Reads
America 250
Philadelphia’s President House – Phil Greenwalt at Emerging Revolutionary War Era.
The Genius of America: Our Constitution – Eric Lane and Michael Oreskes at American Heritage.
The Breaking of Maryland’s “Old Line” – Drew Palmer at Emerging Revolutionary War Era.
Jefferson’s Words for a Fractured Country – Jonathan Horn at The Free Press.
Reluctant Ally: The Dutch Republic and the American Revolution – Nicholas Marsella at Journal of the American Revolution.
American Stuff
James K. Polk and the 5,106 Votes That Changed America – Walter Borneman at The Coolidge Review.
America Is the West. Is Europe? – Spencer Klavan at The New Jerusalem.
British Stuff
The Decline of Classical Liberal Policing in Britain and its Former Dominions – Martin George Holmes at Insomnia Quarterly.
Why is Andrew “not above the law”? – Stephen McAlpine.
Art
The Monet Line – Jeffrey Streeter at English Republic of Letters.
Life and Culture
Every Child is Born a Person: Classical Education for All – Aimee Davis at Front Porch Republic.
Writing and Literature
Writing Is Pain, but Environment Can Help – Trevin Wax at The Gospel Coalition.
Poetry
57 – Sonja Benskin Mesher.
“On Mites (To a Lady),” poem by Stephen Duck – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.
“On Barn,” poem by Jeanetta Calhoun Mish – Benjamin Myers at HPPR Poets on the Plains.
Life and Death – Paul Cardell
Painting: Lady Reading lit by an Attic, oil on canvas by Pol Friis Nybo (1869-1929).
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