If there is one national flag recognized the world over today, it’s the flag of the United States. At one time, it was Britain’s Union Jack. Guy Iynn at History tells the story of these two flags and where they came from. Stewart McLaurin at USA Today writes the American flag helped the country evolve and unite.
For the past few weeks, you can’t open any social media platform without seeing Europeans visiting for the World Cup and discovering the America they never knew existed. The reports became so widespread that even the mainstream media began to notice. But these visitors also did something else – they reminded us of the great country Americans themselves forgot existed.
Following Keir Starmer’s resignation Monday, Britain will now have its seventh prime minister in a decade. That decade of instability started officially when Britain voted to leave the European Union in the vote known as Brexit. Douglas Murray argues in The Free Press that Britain’s leaders forgot how to lead. Arthur Reynolds at The Critic Magazine says the Civil Service was the ruin of Starmer. And writer Fred de Frossard looks at the decade and explains why Brexit was right.
It had grown and lasted for at least 800 years. Some said it was even older, 1,000 or even 1,500 years. But it is no more. The Major Oak has died. And some see the death as symbolizing far more than an old, dead tree.
More Good Reads
America 250
The Forgotten Scot Behind the Declaration of Independence – Samuel Gregg at The Coolidge Review.
The Essential Paintings of Our Nation – Judith Dobrzynski at The Wall Street Journal (unlocked).
The Tobacco Raid of 1779 – Marc Drolet at Journal of the American Revolution.
The Founding Fathers had a real revolution to overcome before they could win the war – J.H. Cook at Fox News.
New York’s Underdogs Prepare to Fight – Jonathan Horn t The Free Press.
Scots in the Revolution & the British Southern Pivot – Keli Holt at Just Enough History.
When the Colonists Fasted for Independence – Sarah Gleim at History.
Faith
Loaves, Fish, and Un-Self-Conscious Little Boys – Michael Kelley at Forward Progress.
Kingdom of Trees – Paul Kingsnorth at The Abbey of Misrule.
Writing and Literature
“O Abany”: Novelist William Kennedy on His Great Cycle of the City – Library of America (video).
Luxury Muzhik – Adam Thirlwell at London Review of Books reviews Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev by Maxim Gorky.
50 Years of Creative Destruction in the Book World – Joel Miller at Miller’s Book Review.
Winged Words: Reading & Discussing Great Books – Peter Kalkavage at The Imaginative Conservative.
Poetry
“Life and Love: A Song,” poem by John Wilmor, Earl of Rochester – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.
“An Essay on Man,” poem by Alexander Pope (excerpt) – Joseph Bottum at Poems Ancient and Modern.
Thank You Jesus for the Blood – Charity Gayle
Painting: The Morning Chapter, oil on canvas by Charles Spencelayh (1865-1958).
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