One Eternal Day

Showing tomorrow on Turner Classic Movies, Dark Passage (1947) : This is the third and most heartfelt pairing of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren...

Alan Jacobs on book banning in America: danah boyd: “Over the last two years, I’ve been intentionally purchasing and reading books that are...

Not a typical Hitchcock, but one of his favorite films,  The Trouble with Harry (1955) is one of Hitchcock's few comedies. It's a ...

From Alan Jacobs today, an excerpt from one of his books that he has titled "my testimony": .... The sermon eluded my attention, ...

Ten years ago I posted : When in my early teens, having graduated from the Hardy Boys, I consumed the Saint books by Leslie Charteris. I hav...

Lance Morrow on "retcon" : "retcon, in short, is an instrument for editing history to escape its inconvenient implications—it...

G.K. Chesterton: We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour. Hence he comes to us clad in all the carel...

C.S. Lewis on loving your neighbor as yourself: Now that I come to think of it, I have not exactly got a feeling of fondness or affection fo...

I found this affecting. Patrick Kurp quotes a letter Samuel Johnson wrote upon discovering the death of a man who had been a friend for a v...

Romney's decision not to run for reelection led Richard Brookhiser to reflect  on the ambitions of John Quincy Adams : JQA left his and ...

This looks promising: Fusion: In the Tradition of Liberty . From an essay by Ryan T. Anderson at that site: If we don’t want people souring...

From a review of The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God (by Justin Brierley with a foreward by N.T. Wright): ...[T]he implosion of the Ne...

I haven't watched  The Chosen primarily because I'm a bit cynical about films that intend to send a message. (Samuel Goldwyn suppos...

Mom's favorite hymn: Sing the wondrous love of Jesus, Sing His mercy and His grace; In the mansions bright and blessed ...

Alan Jacobs has deactivated his X (formerly Twitter) account for reasons I find persuasive . I just did too. Nick Catoggio writing at The Di...

I think it was one of my high school English teachers who suggested that I might enjoy John Buchan's thrillers. I'm sure the first I...

I do really like this sort of thing. A member at Facebook's "Golden Age Detection" group came across this map. Agatha Christ...

J.R.R. Tolkien died on September 2 nd  fifty years ago. From "Tolkien’s Biblical Epic,"  yesterday in The Wall Street Journal : .....

On Labor Day weekend I return to Gene Edward Veith 's explanation of "vocation," once posted on his blog (the link I originall...

From "The death of Superman: How Hollywood killed the American hero" : Something has been absent in recent times in the adaptation...