In these two hymn, readers will meet a poet who, though he may not be exactly easy, presents images of beauty and, in his own words, “terror” that are the very stuff of the Christian walk that Eliot himself began in 1927.
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Setting aside my overall beef that most of us feel like zombies twice a year, on the average for about ten days, and that Tenebrae services are held too often in daylight, I find myself wondering why people felt so compelled to change something so fundamental to experience.
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Just last week a group of so-called students, egged on by teachers ardent to relive their own...
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We—the dwindling numbers who still regard Shakespeare as an indispensible part of a man’s education—know that Lady Macbeth is, like her husband, a startling picture of unrestrained malice.
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Trump is not a racist. But since the label is the ultimate Leftist smear, it works wonders even when used promiscuously as the Left is wont to do concerning, say, immigration, especially when it’s illegal.
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The time may come—and it may be very soon indeed—when the modern West, hardly in robust health itself, will find its future better served by a renewed Cathedral school and by the disappearance of a once-great institution, the university, that is degenerating before our eyes into a massive day-care center.
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Bureaucratic creep and the expenditure of a trillion here and a trillion there will scuttle the Trump administration, the success of which depends on real and lasting economic growth. A profligate, overbearing government will not drain the swamp; it will swamp us.
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There will always be something at the core of Barack Obama, a little imp whispering in his ear, that will assure him the country, nay, the world is a better place if only because he graced it with his presence.
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The “paper of record” didn’t reveal the principals’ races until the third paragraph (that is, after many readers moved on to the next story) or that racism had anything to do with the crime.
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During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump was much criticized—no, castigated—for suggesting (certainly with his usual hyperbole) a ban on Muslim immigration to the United States. It’s an extreme measure, to be sure, but isn’t it about time we in the West realized these are extreme times?
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