One Eternal Day

Dirda has reappeared at The Washington Post with "What are the best adventure novels?" including a list of books that he would c...

A few excerpts from "Why the Revolution Never Ends" : Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels famously began The Communist Manifesto (1848...

Tolkien delivered "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics" in 1936, before he began writing the Middle-earth books. This is from ...

From  "The Seven Most Popular G.K. Chesterton Quotes He Never Said" : “Fairy tales are more than true — not because they tell ...

In its weekly "Things Worth Remembering" essay,  The Free Press publishes "Life Is Real! Life Is Earnest!" quoting fro...

I find it annoying when local churches indulge in cute "branding." The first time I recall feeling that way was when a church that...

I have reached what I once would have considered an advanced age. From Patrick Kurp's "The Ice Growing Thinner Below Our Feet"...

At NRO, Giancarlo Sopo recommends "What to Watch on the Fourth of July." I really like this one and I think I'll watch it ton...

Calvin Coolidge on the 150 th anniversary of Independence Day: .... It was not because it was proposed to establish a new nation, but becau...

Via Prufrock , from "Nobody Has A Personality Anymore" : Therapy-speak has taken over our language. It is ruining how we talk abou...

I haven't posted much here recently because I simply haven't come across things that interested me enough to go to the trouble. But ...

I taught middle school and (mostly) high school social studies and history for thirty-six years. During that time, the curriculum evolved in...

The Telegraph' s Health page offers "Why over-60s should have four coffees a day."  I continue to follow this health advice da...

Writing about Winston S. Churchill and books, Patrick Kurp quotes from an essay by the great man: ‘What shall I do with all my books?’ was ...

Trevin Wax on certain welcome trends in Christian worship : ...[T]here’s a clear movement among younger generations toward rooted, establish...

The post title is from The Hobbit . The spiders may not have been able to see Bilbo, but I'm not invisible. I just finished the first ap...

I did enjoy his novels, especially  Day of the Jackal and Dogs of War (both made into excellent films). He also narrated the BBC series S...

Bryan Garner writes about English usage . With Antonin Scalia, he co-authored Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts . Here he expla...

"Utopian Promises, Despotic Outcomes" is a review of The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea from Thucydides to Lenin by Da...

I'm not sure when I first discovered Elmore Leonard, but it was after the time he was writing Westerns (but I do have DVDs of some films...