One Eternal Day

In a magazine called First Things Peter Leithart reminds us of this thing: ...Christians are always citizens of two cities, the heaven...

Stefan Kanfer begins his fine essay about B&W films, "In Living Black-and-White," with this: The civics teacher had an in...

I probably first read Russell Kirk while in high school in one of the columns he wrote about education for National Review . One summer I r...

Bill Watterson : Calvin is autobiographical in the sense that he thinks about the same issues that I do, but in this, Calvin reflects my ...

"Mystery in the Age of Empire" is about books that combine two of my favorite genres, historical fiction and crime fiction. Good...

A blessing is group of friends whose friendship is firm enough that it cannot be undone by vigorous disagreement expressed frankly. I don...

From A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C.S. Lewis (1968) edited by Clyde Kilby (still one of the best collections of CSL quotations). The chapt...

Reading this today, "100-year-old woman says Guinness is key to long life," reminded me of this post from 2010:  Good news f...

Browsing in From the Library of C.S. Lewis: Selections from Writers Who Influenced His Spiritual Journey I came across this: At first...

One of the Dover books I bought long ago is a large format paperback collection of The Doré Bible Illustrations: 241 Plates by Gustave Dor...

Re-posted because it is such good advice. My father read to me. From Mark Bauerlein at First Things : Everybody knows how important it i...

Jessica Hooten Wilson on Walker Percy and "Living as an Ex-Suicide" : .... The Declaration of Independence calls for the purs...

Via Anecdotal Evidence , from Michael Oakshott's essay “A Place of Learning” (1975): Each of us is born in a corner of the earth an...

Via First Things The precepts of the Lord are pretty clear— What’s right or wrong is plain enough to see. And yet the question t...

As has become my custom on Flag Day I post this: Several years ago I was part of an exchange with secondary teachers from Japan. The Japa...

From Psalm 16:  The L ORD is my chosen portion and my cup;       Thou holdest my lot.  The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places;...

Ross Douthat's review of Solo is titled "Meager Competence." It begins: Sometimes you just have to stop watching. I figu...

Today is the anniversary of D-Day. One of the best accounts of that day was by Stephen Ambrose. Ambrose's scholarship has come under qu...