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 »
Small wars, the kind that pit a superpower against an apparently overmatched enemy, are easy to slip into and can be hard to get out of. But it need not always be so. The British in their imperial magnificence at the turn of the twentieth century fought wars against Islamic fanatics on the northwest . . . . Continue Reading »
The leaders of Anglo-Saxon England perished on the field of Hastings, but their legacy is everywhere. Continue Reading »
Father Ignatius and Harry found, across the centuries, that their lives would not be determined by the accidents of birth. Continue Reading »
In future, could American politicians please keep religion out of their platforms and propaganda? Continue Reading »
What Father Alexander Sherbrooke has done at St. Patrick’s Church in London is little short of miraculous. Continue Reading »
For the past few weeks I have been confined by state-sponsored panic to my hometown, for day after brilliantly sunny day. Continue Reading »
My beloved city, Oxford, is closed and silent, like a large, well-ordered cemetery. Continue Reading »
They don’t look very Christian—those strange faces made of leaves, and those women displaying cartoonishly enlarged genitals on the walls of medieval churches. Most people who have explored the medieval architecture of Western Europe have heard a tour guide explain that a particular carving . . . . Continue Reading »
Speaking to his friend Frederick Lindemann in the 1920s, Winston Churchill remarked, “Far too much has been and is being written about me.” Among Churchill’s many chroniclers, even at that early date, was Churchill himself: a true history-writing history-maker, who wrote not only to make money . . . . Continue Reading »
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