One Eternal Day

Those of us who value The Narnia Chronicles have already read enough to be dubious about Netflix's upcoming 2027 version of The Magicia...

When "omnipotent moral busybodies" control power: Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may ...

Last night a friend and I re-watched A Man for All Seasons  (1966). It's a great film with important lessons, whether or not its portray...

Many of us who have long identified as evangelicals now avoid the label because it has become understood as a political, i.e., Trumpian, rat...

Some years ago I bought and read T. Harry Williams' biography, Huey Long (1969). It's a long, thorough, and very readable book abou...

Anyone who has visited my apartment would suspect that I am something of an Anglophile. They would be right. On the walls, they would find p...

I am making slow but regular progress through The Chronicles of Narnia and have just begun reading The Voyage of the Dawn Treader . Eustace ...

If you wish to understand the 20 th century, you could do much worse than start with Paul Johnson's Modern Times (revised edition, 200...

Last year I posted about two books I wanted to read that were to be published in 2026. One of them, Michael Dirda's  The Great Age of St...

Those who follow this blog know that one of my favorite authors is John Buchan  (1875-1940). I have posted about him, his thrillers, and oth...

Gary Saul Morson , on a consequence of short (or no) historical memory: A zombie is haunting America, the zombie of communism. Pronounced de...

I taught secondary U.S. History in public schools for thirty-five years. When I started, we did teach subject matter that slighted things li...

I have begun to re-read the Narnia books, beginning, of course with The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe , not, as the current collections...

Allen Guelzo, historian of the American Civil War, comments on what was lost when Gordon Wood was killed. Wood was one of the most influenti...

From CrimeReads , Jeffrey Archer selects the "the ten novels [he] return[s] to from before 1980," excluding Agatha Christie (who g...

History may not repeat itself, but it often rhymes. In a review of Love and Terror: The Helter-Skelter History of the Manson Murders, atte...

Wise counsel  from a work of fiction: ...Tolkien’s assessment of history isn’t just the musings of some dour and curmudgeonly professor. His...

The New Criterion has published an excerpt from Theodore Dalrymple's soon-to-be-published book about Agatha Christie. I always enjoy re...

I only possess a few of Chesterton's thirty-some books: Heretics and Orthodoxy, of course, his Autobiography , a collection of Father ...

I have commented before about historical novels I have enjoyed. I dislike those that take liberties with what is actually known about real p...