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J. R. R. Tolkien among the Illiberals

August 31, 2022 Ben Reinhard 8

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 […]

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The God Question Revisited

November 20, 2020 Jack Gist 14

Walker Percy’s father committed suicide when Walker was a teenager. After his mother drove her car off a Louisiana bridge, he was raised by an agnostic first-cousin. Such experiences have driven many a young soul […]