M. D. Aeschliman

We cannot afford to shirk the burden of knowing what has actually been done, especially since 1914. Continue Reading »

The Wanting Seed is a guide for understanding our world today—especially the realities and implications of modern materialism, empiricism, urbanization, and utilitarianism.  Continue Reading »

We ought to value persons for their habitual qualities and their achievements. Chilton Williamson’s character and accomplishments are in many respects exemplary—especially his Christian hope. Continue Reading »

Toussaint L’Ouverture was not a Jacobin revolutionary. He was a Catholic, whose view of universal human dignity was drawn from the heart of the gospel itself. Continue Reading »

The remote Tuscan-Romagnolan mountains evince a world isolated from modernity, though that solitude likely won't last long.  Continue Reading »

After a teaching career of fifty years, I agree with E. D. Hirsch that the primary problem in American public education is not the high schools, but the poorly organized, ineffective elementary school curricula, including the idiotic books of childish fiction.  Continue Reading »

Even after Orwell explicitly diverged from some of Chesterton’s views in the 1930s, under the influence of socialist ideas and hopes, Chesterton’s assumptions and political and ethical conceptions continued to shape him. Continue Reading »

Both arrant trumpery and much of our current “Great Awakening” are lethal to Western civilization, of which we are the beneficiaries and should be the guardians. Continue Reading »

Northrop Frye: Religious Visionary and Architecht of the Spiritual World by Robert D. Denham University of Virginia Press, 373 pages, $37.50 Northrop Frye was one of the half-dozen most influential literary critics of the twentieth century, and his wide-ranging mind brought him unusual prominence . . . . Continue Reading »

In The Abolition of Man C. S. Lewis noted that nothing he could say would keep some people from saying that he was anti-science, a charge he was nevertheless eager to refute. In fact he had received the kind of philosophical education at Oxford that enabled him, like John Henry Newman before him, . . . . Continue Reading »