Remembering Sir John Betjeman – A Poet Laureate and More
On the rare occasions that I mention Sir John Betjeman (1906-1984) to my students, they don’t know...
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Author: Carl C. Curtis
A Vignette from Dostoevsky’s Life: Active Love as Reality
The instances of active love in Dostoevsky are, it’s fair to say, the hallmark of his art.
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Mr. Vermeer (& Co.) Comes to Washington’s National Gallery
The commentary at the exhibition did, suggesting in Vermeer’s two men Aristotelian and Platonic metaphors, practical and theoretical figures. And it may be so…….
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The Anglican Faith Bartered for Triviality: The Devil’s Bargain
A quarter of British rural Anglican parishes now have fewer than 10 regular members of the faithful on Sunday. There are no more children in 25% of the Church of England’s congregations, as new figures have just shown.
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A Review of Darkest Hour — “Let us now praise famous men.”
But anyone who has even the least knowledge of what it means for a man to live through a crisis will find the chinks in Churchill’s armor more than believable
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The Age of Weinstein: Poor, Poor, Pitiful Us!
If we, men and women, demand no more of ourselves than the next shot at victim status; if we continue to scoff at the institutions, habits, and virtues that serve to collar the fallen beast within us, the Autumn of Weinstein will become the Year, the Decade, the Century of Weinstein.
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Douglas Murray’s The Strange Death of Europe: Warning to the West or Obituary?
Only in Eastern Europe, countries that know all too well the cost of invasions—first of Nazis then of Bolsheviks—has the refusal to admit the flood of aliens been strong enough to withstand the shaming of the Eurocentric Left
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Grendel’s Dam as Feminist Icon: The Power of Maw and Claw
In the meantime, empowered women search the pages of history, literature, philosophy, and theology to find templates of the goddesses they might become.
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“Taking the Knee” in the N.F.L. — The Truth at Last!
President Trump, revealing his erstwhile-unknown ambition to be commissioner of the league, declared that all the kneelers should be fired.
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The Butler’s Wisdom Becomes Reality as Antifa Watches the World Burn
But as I watch Antifa in action, I have at least to entertain the thought that no reform of society, no act of social contrition will satisfy their demands
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