Many of us grew up reciting “Listen, my children, and you shall hear, of the midnight ride of Paul Revere.” Those opening lines of the poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and what followed became our understanding of the famous and mythic ride. But as the Smithsonian Magazine points out, Paul Revere had another race, now forgotten, to secure government documents, of all things.
Ray Bradbury is famous for the novel Fahrenheit 451 and stories like The Martian Chronicles. He also believed in freedom of speech and fought censorship. Bradley Birzer writes at Modern Age that Bradbury should be seen as an advocate of freedom, not ideology. Speaking of freedom, Birzer himself just published a new book this past week, The Declaration of Independence: A Radical Experiment in Liberty.
Randy Alcorn has a post about heaven, and it’s an intriguing one. He writes that many believe in eight common myths, and that’s all they are, myths.
More Good Reads
America 250
Before 1776, There Was Rhode Island – Bjorn Bruckshaw at Emerging Revolutionary War Era.
George Washington Crosses the Delaware – Keli Holt at Just Enough History.
The Odyssey and Irrelevance of John Adams – Kevin Diestelow at Journal of the American Revolution.
A Naval Battle off Wilmington, DE, May 8, 1776 – Eric Sterner at Emerging Revolutionary War Era.
Writing and Literature
The Most Powerful Words You’ll Ever Write Change You First – Jana Carlson.
Poetry
On Nostalgia: Ever Cleaner, Ever More Pillowy – Boris Dralyuk at Poetry Magazine.
“Home Thoughts,” from Abroad,” poem by Robert Browning – Anthony Esolen at Word & Song.
Trees – poem by David Whyte.
“Mock Panegyric on a Young Friend,” poem by Jane Austen – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.
The Wrong Kind of Black Poet – Ernest Jesuyemi at Compact.
‘A Small Rebellion Against the Machine’ – Joel Miller at Miller’s Book Review interviews poet Seth Wieck.
Why Don’t People Like Poetry? – Daniel Cowper at New Verse Review.
Faith
Why AI Will Not Replace Human Love – Elena Streett at Front Porch Republic.
British Stuff
‘A remarkable time capsule’: The enchanting history of Oxford University’s 750-year-old medieval library – Christian Kriticos at BBC.
Life and Culture
How the Far Left Tapped into a Money Machine – Roy Teixiera at The Free Press.
Nobody Teaches Arithmetic Anymore – Dan Murphy at The Imaginative Conservative.
News Media
Substack vs. Twitter – Competitors or Complementary? – Yuri Bezmenov at How to Subvert Subversion.
What An Awesome God – Phil Wickham
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