Why Read Old Books?
The problem with ‘progressivism’ is that its adherents feel morally superior to those who came before them.
Literature
The Necessity of To Kill a Mockingbird
Perhaps, instead of banning it, we should all reread it.
A Year in Reading: Books in the Time of COVID
The highlights of one writer’s 2020 reading list.
Kurt Vonnegut’s Love Letters Show the Cynic’s Softer Side
A review of Love, Kurt: The Vonnegut Love Letters, 1941–1945.
The Dawning of the ’20s
Edith Wharton’s Twilight Sleep reminds us that decadence and virtue-signaling are not new.
Reflections on the Life of Walter Hooper, the Man Who Brought You C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis’s former secretary Walter Hooper died this week at the age of 89.
Walter Hooper, R.I.P.
The American who more than anyone else brought C.S. Lewis to the world has passed away at the age of 89.
G. K. Chesterton and George Bernard Shaw: An Ambivalent Literary Relationship
The Christian writer G. K. Chesterton remains a judicious guide to the modernist Nietzschean dramatist George Bernard Shaw.
Our Literary Drought
Novelists, poets, and critics seek a higher truth, but today’s pickings are slim.
Anna, Dressed in White and Blue
Although her rebellions came and went like senseless gales, rebellions are for love of one thing or another — love overflowing, love bent, or love broken.