It was a fine afternoon at the University. The semester was in full swing, the day was growing late, and a student had stopped by the office to talk literature. The conversation turned—as it so […]
Crime and Punishment is, by all accounts, one of the great triumphs of human artistic genius: penetrating, achingly beautiful, and borderline prophetic. It is also, for the first-time reader, an arduous experience. Dostoevsky’s sprawling genius overflows […]
Great literature is, almost inevitably, a political affair. It could hardly be otherwise. Poetry, as Aristotle recognized long ago, plays with the universals of human experience — and man is a political animal. Thus the […]
It has been a lively month at the Walt Disney Company. Late February saw the release of the feature film Turning Red to the dismay of parents who believe that discussion of menstruation, sexualized drawings […]
In The Screwtape Letters, C. S. Lewis’s senior devil reminds his protégé that every age and every culture has its characteristic vices and virtues. It is the devil’s job to confuse men as to what […]
The resurgent relevance of Triumph Magazine has been one of the few pleasant developments in American political discourse in the last decade. It is also something of a surprise. During Triumph’s heyday in the 1960s, […]
In a wise and penetrating article for Catholic World Report, Edward Feser recently argued that the “wokeness” of the modern left and the fringe QAnon theories of the right can both be read as modern […]
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