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The image that come to mind when I think of the American Revolution are the Boston Tea Party, Lexington and Concord, crossing the Delaware, Bunker Hill, the winter at Valley Forge, Paul Revere’s ride, the Declaration of Independence signed at Philadelphia, and Yorktown. Do you see what’s odd about that list? Except for Yorktown, the story in my head centers in the northeastern colonies. Alan Pell Crawford, writing for The Coolidge Review, talks about another war – the Revolutionary War that history forgot, one that just as important as what happened in the North.
I like the writing of William Faulkner. My wife does not. “Didn’t the guy ever hear of punctuation marks?” she says. Well, yes, there is that. Joel Miller at Miller’s Book Review asks a very pertinent question for writers: how long should a sentence be? To be fair to my wife’s criticism, Miller points out that Faulkner has one sentence in Absalom, Absalom that is almost 1,300 words long. But Faulkner is a piker compared to last year’s Nobel Prize winner, Hungarian Laszlo Krasznahorkai, who has a novella of 17,800 words – all in one sentence. The mind boggles.
J.P. Moreland, professor of philosophy at the Talbott School of Theology (Biola University), has a relatively short article adapted from a longer paper. It’s about how three worldviews – Christianity, postmodernism, and scientific naturalism – view government. It will be no surprise that two of the three almost by definition favor big government. If you’re interested in the longer paper, you can download it here.
More Good Reads
America 250
Ten of the Most Exciting Ways to Commemorate America’s 250th This Year – Laura Kiniry at Smithsonian Magazine.
The New Dominion: The Land Lotteries – Gabriel Neville at the Journal of the American Revolution.
When Revolutionary War Heroes Became Enemies of the State – Jason Clark at This Is the Day.
The First War for Hearts and Minds – Jonathan Horn at The Free Press.
The Monmouth County Jail and the Jailbreak of February 1781 – Michael Adelberg at Journal of the American Revolution.
Victory or Death: Trenton, December 1776 – Charlton Allen at American Thinker.
Writing and Literature
Charles Dickens and the Upside-Down Kingdom – Kari Cope at Story Warren.
Why Literature Needs a Punk Rock Mindset – Lincoln Michel at Counter Craft.
Faith
Lincoln on Reviving Truth in Public Discourse – John Pletcher at the Institute for Faith, Work, & Economics.
Tiptoeing to the Edge of Cliffs – Tim Challies.
The Need for Father-Scholars – Ian Harber at Mere Orthodoxy.
Softly, Softly, Break a Bone – Kristin at The Palest Ink.
Life and Culture
Don’t Call It a Comeback – Elizabeth Stice at Front Porch Republic.
Poetry
“Ode” by Arthur O’Shaughnessy – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.
“Madam Would Speak with Me,” poem by George Meredith – Joseph Bottum at Poems Ancient and Modern.
What is Lyric Poetry? - L.L. Barkat at Tweetspeak Poetry.
American Stuff
After Trump comes reform – Simon Jenkins at The Spectator.
Psalm 116 (I Love You Lord) – Mission House with Andrew & Skye Peterson
Painting: St. Francis of Assisi in Prayer, oil on copper by Cigoli (Ludivico Cardi) (1559-1613), Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest.
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