The Clean Sweep
Revolutions can exchange specific ills for real improvements, but never without expenditure of treasure, blood, and occasional old goods lost in the shuffle.
Christmas
It’s Still a Wonderful Movie
Critics of It’s a Wonderful Life are mistaken.
A Christmas Playlist
A collection of my favorite folk and religious songs and carols.
The Content of Our Christmases
My Christmas time spent with Nat King Cole, G. K. Chesterton, and Mickey Mouse.
His Father’s Business
Those who seek a model of responsible manhood would do well to imitate Joseph, the nativity story’s forgotten man.
A Communist Christmas Story
How the Communist regime in Hungary tried, and failed, to coopt the celebration of Christ’s birth to its own ends.
Xmas Pics
Some shots of Manhattan, and beyond.
‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’ Yes — So Stop Singing
This catchy Christmas staple is brimming with celebrity condescension.
The Lonely Church This Christmas
Returning to Mass in a pandemic Advent.
Boris Johnson ‘Cancels Christmas’
Because of a new strain of the deadly virus, the government has consigned millions of people in highly infected areas to a sad and lonely Christmas.