One Eternal Day

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...

I've never read Boethius (but I have read T.S. Eliot ). Thomas Ward has read Boethius, and Rick Kennedy reviews his book in "The W...

Archibald MacLeish (1940): The young dead soldiers do not speak Nevertheless they are heard in the still houses: who has not heard them? ...

Occasioned by a new release of Richard Lester's Three Musketeers comes a review of a film I thoroughly enjoyed in a theater when it wa...

Among those I think about as Memorial Day approaches is Mom's youngest brother, Robert Levi Bond, killed in action in September of 1944,...

From a review of Thomas More: A Life Over the last century, Thomas More has undergone three posthumous transmutations. In 1935 – exactly 40...

Patrick Kurp on "presentism," beginning with a quotation from Robert Conquest: “History is not some past from which we are cut of...

I am a believer in "honest ecumenism," that is, ecumenism that does not ignore or minimize the real doctrinal differences that do ...

There are a couple of books I am eagerly anticipating, although publication dates are uncertain. One is Alan Jacobs' biography of Doroth...

When art serves ideology, it becomes "agitslop" : .... The moment creativity and aesthetics are subordinated to a moral or politic...

I've posted before about an excellent source of free E-books: Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions ...

Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941) on Christian discipline: MANY people seem to think that the spiritual life necessarily requires a definite and ...

The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth, and addre...

An appreciation of Christianity is not enough. To be saved requires faith. From The Telegraph on "cultural Christianity": Being a...

Looking through some previous posts here I came across an article describing how the soundtrack of O Brother, Where Art Thou? broadened the...

Some years ago, when a family in his community had suffered a terrible loss, a Lutheran pastor  preached an Easter Vigil sermon : .... For a...