The books “Hidden Figures,” “Trash,” and “Under a Cruel Star” will open young readers’ eyes to lesser-known heroes who moved forward with bravery, determination, and hope, even when the worlds they lived in sought to diminish or even extinguish them. ‘Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race’ by Margot…
Will Durant’s Essay ‘Freedom of Worship’: A Story About a Little Church
“Each according to the dictates of his own conscience.” This phrase, attributed to George Washington, illuminates the top of Norman Rockwell’s painting “Freedom of Worship,” which shows eight different people praying. Each individual shows his own form of worship, whether it is pensive, thankful, patient, sad, petitioning, or filled with wonder. Some people look upwards,…
Under Construction: Repairing Western Civilization One Reader at a Time
August 23, 2022
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Alfred Thayer MahanAnthony EsolenArts & CulturebooksBrightHarriet Beecher StoweLife & TraditionThe Great Books of the Western World
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When we think of the world’s most influential books, a host of titles might come to mind: the epics of the ancient world, the Bible, the Quran, the philosophies left to us by the likes of Plato, Aristotle, and Marcus Aurelius, and so on down through the centuries. The possibilities appear inexhaustible. If we narrow…
Booth Tarkington’s Essay ‘Freedom of Speech’: A Story of Two Men at the Brenner Pass
August 22, 2022
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"The Saturday Evening Post"Arts & CulturebooksBooth TarkingtonBrightfreedom of speechLife & TraditionNormal Rockwell
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We each have personal opinions and thoughts that we like to discuss and compare with others. Whether on trivial or crucial matters, this discussion, enabled by freedom of speech, allows us to search for truth. “The Saturday Evening Post” commissioned the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Booth Tarkington in 1943 to write an essay to accompany Norman…
Book Review: ‘Olympia: The Birth of the Games’: A Fun, Though Violent Perspective of the Start of the Olympics
August 22, 2022
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‘Olympia: The Birth of the Games’Arts & CulturebooksBrightJohn A. MartinoMichael P. O’KaneOlympic Games
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What is the true story of how the Olympic games began? John A. Martino and Michael P. O’Kane, authors of “Olympia: The Birth of the Games,” have endeavored to tell that story in their new novel. This historical fiction account takes the reader back to the year 776 B.C., in the Greek city of Olympia….
Book Review: ‘Uncommon Wrath: How Caesar and Cato’s Deadly Rivalry Destroyed the Roman Republic’
For those interested in the history of statecraft, there are few topics more compelling than the Roman Republic, and in particular the reasons for its fall. Josiah Osgood, professor of classics at Georgetown University, has written an insightful and important work on this topic. His book “Uncommon Wrath: How Caesar and Cato’s Deadly Rivalry Destroyed…
Book Review: ‘Ghost: Confessions of a Counterterrorism Agent’
On Sept. 11, 2001, I was working as a reporter for a local newspaper in Warrenton, Virginia (Fauquier County), roughly 45 miles west of Washington. The television was on in the conference room and the staff started to gather as we watched a plane slam into one of the Twin Towers in New York. Aghast,…
Epoch Booklist: Recommended Reading for Aug. 19–25
This week, we look at exotic journals from the female “Lawrence of Arabia” and a history of early U.S. Navy heroes and their inspiring dedication. Fiction A Fun, Mystical Thriller ‘Percy St.-John and the Chronicle of Secrets’ By E.A. Allen Fate brings Percy to an old monastery in Switzerland. His gifts as a thief, however,…
Something for Summer Reading: ‘Treasure Island’ by Robert Louis Stevenson
Mark Twain said that a classic is a book that everybody wants to have read, but nobody wants to read. Sad to say, “Treasure Island” by Robert Louis Stevenson has become one of those classics. But “Treasure Island” lies waiting to be dug up, and perhaps the waning days of this summer is your chance…
‘Surrounded by Western Civilization’: The Overlooked Curators of Culture
Despite America’s relative youth when compared to such countries as Great Britain, Italy, China, and Japan, repositories of the past abound in the United States. Our major cities feature art and history museums, orchestras, ballets, statues of great men and women, monuments, and libraries. A visitor to our nation’s capital, for instance, might spend a…
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