One Eternal Day

A humane society requires an understanding that precedes politics : .... Classics in the history of Western thought place a strong emphasis ...

From the final chapter of John R.W. Stott's Basic Christianity , "Being a Christian": We saw earlier that our sins had alienat...

"How do we fight nothing?" Nihilism’s root is nihil , Latin for “nothing.” No meaning. Empty; soulless. What we see is all there i...

I've lived on Madison's isthmus since 1982. I had been "surplused" from LaFollette High School because I was the junior me...

Beginning in 1907 and annually from the 1930s to the '90s, the Sunday Chicago Tribune would publish these on the front page at some poi...

I've been reading C.S. Lewis and books and articles about him for a very long time, but I knew little of what Jews think about him. I...

This seems correct. When I first engaged in social media, I was often guilty of making instant comment that I regretted almost immediately (...

The world's richest man has purchased the Oxford pub where the Inklings once met. From The Telegraph : The most unlikely part of Ellison...

Jonah Goldberg : ...[Y]ou often hear a lot of “buts” after an event like this. When Brian Thompson, the UnitedHealthcare CEO, was murdered, ...

George Will : Today, on both sides of the barricades, politics is practiced with a snarl. It makes people cranky, permeates everything, and ...

"The Taboo That Killed Iryna Zarutska" describes what happened, but also why it shouldn't have happened: Until the...security ...

A friend thought I might appreciate this by Peggy Noonan. He was right. The excerpts below begin with a quotation from David McCullough: .....

On September 9 th , Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett's Listening to the Law will be published. Her decisions on the Court have a...

Tomorrow is Labor Day in the US. As I have done in the past for Labor Day , I re-post part of a 1942 address by Dorothy L. Sayers: "Why...

Paul Kingsnorth writes "I Found Freedom Along the Alaska Highway," sometimes quoting from Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of ...

Once again this summer, The Telegraph offered "The best children’s books for every age group." It's a pretty good list. A fe...

Although published more than three years ago, I only came across it yesterday while searching for something else. Buchan is one of my favori...

Cosmo Landesman "In praise of the silent people" : We Silent People don’t sign on-line petitions or go on protests to show solidar...

Mark Tooley on "Douglas Wilson’s America." The subtitle is "His work to create a confessionally Christian state is the wrong...

I was a public school teacher in Madison, Wisconsin. Many (most?) of the students in my high school classes had political and social opinion...