[NEWS] Five Fourth of July links, from holiday fireworks mayhem to alternate history to Trump

[rfmcdonald]

• Strange Company shares some vintage stories of mayhem, mostly fireworks-related, from 4th of July celebrations a century ago.


• In The Atlantic, Uri Friedman interviews Harry Turtledove about alternate history, starting with the possibility of a failed War of American Independence.


• Tristin Hopper of the National Post shares a decidedly contrarian--Loyalist, even--take on the War of American Independence.


• Jeff Stein of Vox argues that American liberals should not reject American independence, with its real radicalism and egalitarianism.


• At VICE, Harry Cheadle interviews Mike Jakeman about the implications of the Trump disinterest in global leadership.

Comments

[dewline]

3. Well, I suppose someone has to make the counter-argument on occasion. It's never taken well, but even so...

5. If we don't want to have to fall in with either Trumpist America, mainland China or Putinist Russia, the EU might be Canada's best option. And if we can get Australia and NZ/Aetaeroa on board as well...?

[stoutfellow]

I find it surprising that Turtledove didn't mention Robert Sobel's For Want of a Nail, which I thought was the touchstone for alt-American Revolutions.