Why The Brothers Karamazov is the Greatest Novel of All Time
The conflict between good and evil, of the God-centered versus the man-centered, is his great and abiding theme.
Read More
Author: Carl C. Curtis
A “shallow, lazy ignoramus”: Impossibilities in the Age of Trump
. . . . the trouble was that Trump hadn’t invested his time in thinking about the logistics, Congressional votes, or power of the purse
Read More
The Blessing of Holy Days: Landmarks in the Desert
This very morning I caught the not unexpected look of perplexity in the eyes of a classroom of students when I referred to Easter or Eastertide as something ongoing—for a few more weeks in fact.
Read More
The Power of Work — My Man Godfrey, Sir William, and Fyodor
Too many people—especially young men—don’t work or want to work today, but they must learn that work is the pith and marrow of daily living.
Read More
The Film Billy Liar, a 60s Take On the ‘Me Generation’
The film Billy Liar, produced in Britain in 1963, addressed the self-centered urge to fulfill one’s deepest desires as beautifully as any movie I know.
Read More
The Academy Award For Stupidity Goes To . . .
Give Hollywood credit on such matters: when it comes to predictability, they do not disappoint.
Read More
Herbert Marcuse Redux: The Intolerant Radical Who Will Not Die
It’s those other people, the ones with whom you disagree, that you must tolerate.
Read More
A Review of ‘Black Panther’ – Trader Horn Meets the Space Age
Black Panther succeeds very well as entertainment and deserves its blockbuster grosses; but as a cultural artifact, older viewers will detect a whiff of 70s Blaxploitation.
Read More
How About Term Limits? Debt Limits? Any Limits?
With many other voices, I’ve argued for the prudential adoption of a constitutional amendment for term limits.
Read More
Rogier van der Weyden’s Mary Magdalene: A Pictorial Meditation for Lent
The effect overall might be understood as a movement from self-display to self-effacement, and, indeed, one might easily plot Mary’s history, what we gather about it, in exactly that way.
Read More
