One Eternal Day

Theodore Dalrymple laments the retiring of his butcher. I have felt the same about the retirements of those to whom I have become accustomed...

I've never much liked unexpected phone calls. Perhaps paradoxically, as my cell phone has made phone calls easier to receive I have deve...

Amy A. Kass and Leon R. Kass in "Take Time to Remember": .... Memorial Day, once called Decoration Day, is a post-Civil War ...

Levi W. Bond Robert Levi Bond Levi W. Bond was brother to my Great-Grandfather. He joined the 15 th West Virginia V...

I only have a couple of DVDs that are probably pirated. One of them is Disney's "Song of the South." It is completely understa...

Remember : The soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines we honor on Memorial Day deserve glory, those embracing their folded flags deserve ou...

On Thursday (June 1) PBS will broadcast a two-hour documentary called "Sabbath." From The Washington Post : In his book The Sabba...

I may take the advice from CrimeReads and watch a movie based on an Elmore Leonard book this weekend. There are several. One of my favorite...

"When the Therapeutic God Isn’t Sufficient" considers what we are taught by Lamentations .... Sometimes Christians will try to us...

Scott Johnson at PowerLine recognises Bob Dylan's 82 nd birthday this coming Wednesday with two posts, "Not Dark Yet," and ...

From an interview with one of my favorite historical novelists, Bernard Cornwell: Cornwell worked as an editor in television news before fa...

By Tim Keller , quoted in another tribute to his ministry : On the Day of the Lord—the day that God makes everything right, the day that eve...

Rev. Tim Keller died today. If you were to search this blog for references to him, his books, interviews with him, incidental references, et...

A test for just how badly everything is going: The test is from a 2018 commentary by Irish essayist Fintan O’Toole. He calls it “the Yeats ...

Alan Jacobs, who reads a lot and seems to remember it all, quotes from an 1897 speech by William James . I was unfamiliar with the speech bu...

Elon Musk, champion of free speech, defended limiting speech in Turkey (and China?): "By ‘free speech,’ I simply mean that which matche...

From "The Week" by National Review 's editors: In 2016 legal suicide was introduced into Canada, and now that country has on...

  The custom of wearing carnations on Mother's Day dated to the beginning of the observance. Anna Jarvis 's mother's favorite f...

A CrimeReads essay, "7 Criminally Under-Rated Heist Films That Deserve Another Watch," includes Charley Varrick (1973), a film ...

An appreciation of one of the most important books of our time: Today the word “gulag” is often used figuratively, but in the Soviet Union ...