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Gardens of Good and Evil
If you are old enough to have taken a Western Civilization course when it was still a staple of the curriculum, one of the first items that confronted you...
Hume, Austen, and First Impressions
Saint David,” his friends in Scotland and England called David Hume. And in France, where he spent some years as secretary in the British Embassy during the reign of...
Flaubert and the Sin Against the Holy Ghost
Hope is the thing with feathers, Emily Dickinson wrote. Had she composed a longer poem or lived a longer life, would she have come to agree with Gerard Manley...
Dostoevsky Also Nods
Those of us who thought we were well informed about 1054 and all that were stung by the viscerally hostile reaction of many Orthodox Christians to John Paul II’s...
