John J. Miller, a former national correspondent for National Review, is the director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College. He is the author of A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America.
The Bookmonger
Hosted by National Review’s national correspondent and professor at Hillsdale College, John J. Miller, the Bookmonger features ten-minute interviews with today’s top authors on current events, politics, history, and more.
Episode 123: Tom Shippey
This big book of nearly 1,200 pages includes everything from Beowulf’s time — and that’s why they call it The Complete Old English Poems, translated by Craig Williamson and with an introduction by Tom Shippey, who explains why this literature is still worth reading and how it influenced J. R. R. Tolkien. Discuss this podcast at Ricochet.
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