Mary Whitehouse was not simply a moralizing paranoiac, and at some point a half-century ago, we chose the pornographic world that she spent her life fighting against. Continue Reading »
The Mirror and the Light by hilary mantel henry holt, 784 pages, $30 The arrival of this final installment of the Thomas Cromwell trilogy, penned by “one of our most important living writers,” has precipitated an avalanche of adulation for its author and her great work, already decorated with . . . . Continue Reading »
Monsignor Ronald Knox lived such an outstanding life that one can’t but feel the utter inadequacy of one’s own next to its record. Continue Reading »
Gertrude Himmelfarb’s The Idea of Poverty: England in the Early Industrial Age, published in 1984, examined the debate on poverty in British thought from Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations of 1776 through the mid-nineteenth century. The book was remarkable for its scope. It followed . . . . Continue Reading »
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