This weekend, American movie theaters will feature the first-ever biopic of J.R.R. Tolkien, the most important fantasy writer, and the most popular writer to have thought through the moral and political changes Christianity brought into […]
Near the beginning of D.C. Schindler’s important and impressive book Love and the Postmodern Predicament: Rediscovering the Real in Beauty, Goodness, and Truth (Cascade Books, 2018), he quotes a prescient passage from G.K. Chesterton’s Heretics. Chesterton […]
I When John Henry Newman published his Essays Critical and Historical in 1871, a collection he had written as an Anglican on topics ranging from rationalism and the American Episcopal Church to the liberal Anglican […]
In a 1985 article in the New York Times titled “One Too Many for the Muse,” J. Anthony Lukas noted that “an exhaustive roster of literary scrooders would be too long to publish here.” He […]
Sometimes the most perceptive observers of a society are outsiders. Perhaps the best analysis of America, for example, was penned by the French aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville following his travels throughout the United States between […]
Cardinal Joseph Zen, the retired bishop of Hong Kong, has a poignant story in his new book, titled For Love of My People I Will Not Remain Silent: On the Situation of the Church in […]
The Christian Joy of Coming Together In the last months before his conversion, Saint Augustine heard the story of Gaius Victorinus, the pagan neo-Platonist philosopher who was himself converted to Christianity in his old age. […]
Before his early death at forty-four, Robert Louis Stevenson confided to one of his best friends from his Samoan hideaway: “Were it not for my health which made it impossible, I could not find it […]
James Matthew Wilson’s intriguing and intricate new collection of poetry begins with an epigraph in which James George Frazer, author of The Golden Bough, suggests that the Jewish festival Purim, with its destruction of an […]
Criticizing the current liberal order is a popular activity. Authors such as Patrick Deneen, Rod Dreher, D.C. Schindler, Mark Lilla, Johnathan Haidt, and Jordan Peterson have generated significant conversation through their provocative salvos. While many […]
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