biography

Features

John Paul II and me (and the Poles)

March 29, 2023 George Weigel 12

In the first chapter of Profiles in Courage, John F. Kennedy quoted an exasperated Congressman, John Steven McGroarty, who wrote an irritating constituent in these neatly acerbic terms: One of the countless drawbacks of being […]

Books

T.S. Eliot and Uncritical Biography

January 14, 2023 Edward Short 10

I The other day, I was reading Eugenio Montale’s introduction to Allen Mandlebaum’s translation of The Divine Comedy and I was struck by the wisdom of something the modern Italian poet said, and it was […]