Okay, forget that Chaucer versus Shakespeare stuff. Matt Anderson pointed me to an article that reveals our greatest word-maker to be none other than John Milton : According to Gavin Alexander, lecturer in English at Cambridge university and fellow of Milton’s alma mater, Christ’s . . . . Continue Reading »
When I was a kid, there was a game show called Family Feud in which Richard Dawson, or Newkirk from Hogan’s Heroes suffering a sad fate (I am not sure whom), would kiss the contestants and host the happenings. A big part of his job was to announce in ponderous tones: “Survey says . . . . . . Continue Reading »
Vatican City has been crowned the ‘Greenest State In the World’ by . . . the Vatican newspaper. According to design blog Inhabitat : Last year Inhabitat reported that the Vatican was spending $660 million on a massive 100MW photovoltaic installation that would effectively be . . . . Continue Reading »
GWH is about many things. One, is to slow warming. But some are using climate fears as a pretext to destroy the nation state system and replace it with a radically socialist authoritarianism controlled by international bureaucrats and despots, who would use the power of bureaucracies and . . . . Continue Reading »
In our second On the Square article today, Melissa Musick Nussbaum and L. Martin Nussbaum recall the publication of Thomas Nast’s anti-Catholic cartoon “The American River Ganges” and see a likeness between the nativist anti-Catholic sentiments expressed in editorial cartoons, . . . . Continue Reading »
In his new book All in a Word , linguist Vivian Cook lists all the words that the literary titans Geoffrey Chaucer and William Shakespeare “invented”—or at least had the first recorded use. Who do you think was the master neologist? Shakespeare or Chaucer? Flavorwire compiled a . . . . Continue Reading »
A few weeks ago, Losana Boyd, our director of marketing and a poet herself, wrote a positive review of Kathleen Graber’s new book of poetry The Eternal City for On the Square. The review drew sharp disagreement from some of our readers who felt Graber’s verse read less like poetry than . . . . Continue Reading »
Craig Carter defends the lecture , the “paradigmatic act of the university professor in the (originally) Western (but now Global) university in the modern age”: [W]hat kind of event is the lecture? I say it is a moral event first because it is a kind of profession of faith, which is why . . . . Continue Reading »
It was just my first time—on Skype—thanks to Thom Hartmann, whose producer has been pushing me to get visual for some time so I can cross swords with the very liberal talk show host. (I heard echoes of my own younger days in talking to him. I’m certainly no fan of big . . . . Continue Reading »
Wow. Japanese scientists claim that they restored mobility to a paralyzed monkey—note the need for using animals in research—with human induced pluripotent stem cells. From the story:Japanese researchers said Wednesday they had used stem cells to restore partial mobility in a small . . . . Continue Reading »
Subscribe
Latest Issue
Support First Things
