For the whole of human history, man has simultaneously shirked from work, sought respite from it, delighted in it, and found it a necessity. Even while seeking to avoid it, he also would not perfectly enjoy a permanent escape from it, for we yearn to achieve something worthwhile and to see that what we have…
The Glass-Half-Full Poet: Edgar Guest and the American Spirit
Like millions of other immigrants to America, Edgar Albert Guest (1881–1959) worked hard, overcame adversity, made good, and loved the land that gave birth to his dreams and ambitions. He was born in Birmingham, England. In 1891, his mother and father moved the family to Detroit, Michigan. There, at age 11, Guest began working odd…
Book Recommender: A Refreshing Bestseller Saluting the True and Proud History of America
May 13, 2023
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A Patriot’s History of the United States: From Columbus’s Great Discovery to America’s Age of EnlightenmentAmerican EssenceArts & CulturebooksBrightLarry SchweikartMichael Allen
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The weighty, 944-page “A Patriot’s History of the United States,” originally published in 2004, has been lauded by mainstream press as “refreshing” in its absence of a political agenda or social rebuke. Numerous pages of research notes and cited sources back up its content, which goes “From Columbus’s Great Discovery to America’s Age of Entitlement,”…
Epoch Booklist: Recommended Reading for May 12–18
This week, we feature an urban planner’s engaging guide to building on Mars and a suspenseful novel about eight strangers who meet one fateful day. Fiction ‘The Time Has Come’ By Will Leitch This is contemporary fiction that takes place in Athens, Georgia. The specific setting is a beloved pharmacy—Lindbergh’s—that’s reminiscent of nostalgic drugstores of…
Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified Requires School Board Approval for Classroom Books
May 11, 2023
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Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District teachers looking to test new books in their classrooms will now need such books approved by the district’s board. The board voted 3-2 on May 9 to approve a new policy that requires board approval of a book before it is piloted in classrooms and requires that parents be notified…
Book Review: ‘The Lost Diary of George Washington: The Revolutionary War Years’
George Washington kept a diary throughout his life except for a break during the bulk of the war years. When he resumed his diary in May of 1781, his first entry expressed his regret that he had not kept to this daily discipline during the most crucial years in the nation’s fight for independence. Inspired…
Book Review: ‘Afghanistan 1979–88: Soviet Air Power Against the Mujahideen’
The aftermath of America’s disastrous and tragic withdrawal from Afghanistan in the summer of 2021 can never be forgotten. It is too cataclysmic to forget. But it should not be remembered solely because of what took place when the Americans left. What should be remembered, and it is arguable that this is more important, is…
Book Review: Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion
Westward expansion is a most fascinating era of American history. It was a time of hope and chaos, promise and betrayal, hardship and serenity, and that hardly covers any of it. Elliott West, renowned historian and one of the finest writers, has penned a tome that is epically readable. In his “Continental Reckoning: The American…
Book Recommendation: ‘On the Duty of Christian Civil Disobedience’
I’m going to start this review of Peter Demos’s book “On the Duty of Christian Civil Disobedience” with a bit of related information. According to data from LearnReligions.com, as of 2019, there were over 2.5 billion Christians in the world, making up nearly one-third of the world’s population. The term “Christian” encompasses a broad range…
England’s Epic Poet: James Sale and His New Work, ‘StairWell’
The Renaissance-poet Philip Sidney considered the epic or “heroical” genre to be the “most accomplished kind of poetry.” What could possibly substantiate such a claim? In his famous essay, “The Defense of Poesy,” he defined the epic hero as one who “stirs and instructs the mind” with moral doctrine, who “doth not only teach and move to…
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