Forty years ago, I was taking a course called “The Nature of Story,” and one of the books we read was Norman Maclean’s A River Runs Through It. Only 10 years old at the time, it was deservedly already a classic, and it would eventually be made into a movie with Brad Pitt, Tom Skerrit and Brenda Blethyn (who became Vera the detective on PBS Masterpiece Mystery). The novel has just turned 50 years old, and Brandon McNeice at Front Porch Republic has a reflection.
You may not know the name Philo Farnsworth, but he invented what was likely the most influential technology of the 20th century – the television. In 1921, when he was 14 years old, he realized how images might be transmitted through electric current. And the rest, as they say, is history. Jason Clark at This Is the Day has a retrospective.
At Mere Orthodoxy, Nadya Williams interviews Mark Graham about his new book. The subject – the history of Christianity told in 30 key moments.
More Good Reads
America 250
Atlas of Independence: John Adams and the American Revolution by Chris Mackowski – review by Kelsey DeFord at Journal of the American Revolution.
Have You Seen the First Declaration? – Michael Auslin at Patowmack Packet.
Pontiac, taxes and mobs: The American colonists battle Parliament – Keli Holt.
The Siege of Boston, General Washington, and Phillis Wheatley – Patrick Hastings at Library of Congress Blog.
Isaiah Thomas and the Declaration of Independence – Sherman Lohnes at the Journal of the American Revolution.
The Glories of Small Towns – K.E. Colombini at Front Porch Republic.
George Washington’s Warning About Religion Still Matters – Andrew Fowler at Real Clear Religion.
Writing and Literature
Misfits and Moral Injury: Why Shusaku Endo Matters Today – Brian Volck at Church Life Journal.
Wrestling Coach Bets on Tolstoy and Dante to Save the Classics – and Young Men – Joel Miller at Miller’s Book Review.
Life and Culture
Science Has a Big Fraud Problem – Joe Nocera at The Free Press.
The Celtic Mind: How Adam Smith and Edmund Burke Saved Western Civilization – Bradley Birzer.
Iran
Two Days Over Iran – Michael Smith at Unlicensed Punditry.
Who’s That Source? Iran Edition – Jillian Butler at Racket News.
The Blood Libel Comes to Iran – Michael Oren at Clarity.
Jeffrey Sachs Is Trying to Fix The New York Times’ Coverage, One Email at a Time – Emily Kopp at Racket News.
Iran Can’t Hold the World Hostage – Matthew Continetti at The Wall Street Journal (unlocked).
Faith
All the Stars We Never See – Even Patrohay at Front Porch Republic.
American Stuff
Framing History: ‘I could not die in a cause more sacred’ – Melissa Winn at Emerging Civil War.
Poetry
“Two Sewing,” poem by Hazel Hall – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.
Learning by Poetry: Dans la Nuit – L.L. Barkat at Tweetspeak Poetry.
“The Homestead,” poem by Joseph Bottum – A.M. Juster and Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.
I’m With You – Mari Frangoulis
Painting: Woman with Romance Novel, oil on canvas by Johann Baptist Reiter (1813-1890).
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