Of Cigarettes and Grace
by Joshua HrenF. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story “Thank You for the Light” captures how Christ transfigures the mundane. Continue Reading »
Vice and Fire
by Peter HitchensA Song of Ice and Fire by george r. r. martin bantam, 5216 pages, $36.39 No English child will ever again experience, as I did, the joys of Arthur Conan Doyle’s great historical romances The White Company and Sir Nigel, set in the far-off fourteenth century. The remaining . . . . Continue Reading »
Learning to Sit in the Sun
by Peter J. LeithartScottish poet Thomas A. Clark believes the imagination is the key to transforming our inhuman culture. Continue Reading »
Living with a Mind
by Roger ScrutonI was brought up in a culture that made no special place for the “intellectual” as a distinct human type, and which regarded learning in the same way as any other hobby: harmless and excusable, so long as you kept quiet about it. The person who studied the classics at home, who wrote poetry . . . . Continue Reading »
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