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  • A Chilling Description of Our World… from a 1981 Movie

    A Chilling Description of Our World… from a 1981 Movie1

    This weekend, the Facebook page Anonymous posted a short clip from the 1981 movie My Dinner with Andre that went viral. In the clip, one of the characters provides an absolutely chilling perspective on the world in 1981—one that in many ways applies to today, and has even perhaps been magnified. Here’s the clip below:  

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  • A Children’s Book We Can All Learn From: ‘Farmhouse’ by Sophie Blackall

    A Children’s Book We Can All Learn From: ‘Farmhouse’ by Sophie Blackall1

    The old farmhouse that my wife grew up in has been in her family since the Civil War. It’s seeped in memories and nostalgia as generations of large families have been raised there, making it the witness of the countless joys, sorrows, failures, and achievements that go along with growing up. When we visit there,

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  • A Change in Sex Ed? Count Me In

    A Change in Sex Ed? Count Me In1

    As some readers may know, I’m an old guy, born during the middle of the Korean War. Which makes me a time machine.            Listen to me, and I can whisk you back to the late 1960s, when in high school we took biology and health classes. In biology we probably

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  • A Century Ago, Progressives Were the Ones Shouting ‘Fake News’

    A Century Ago, Progressives Were the Ones Shouting ‘Fake News’0

    Donald Trump may well be remembered as the president who cried “fake news.”   It started after the inauguration, when he used it to discredit stories about the size of the crowd at his inauguration. He hasn’t let up since, labeling any criticism and negative coverage as “fake.” Just in time for awards season, he

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  • A Century Ago G.K. Chesterton Had an Accidentally Accurate Vision of an Islamic Britain

    A Century Ago G.K. Chesterton Had an Accidentally Accurate Vision of an Islamic Britain0

    29 May sees 150 years since the birth of G.K. Chesterton, the once-famed English writer and Catholic apologist – now a deeply unfashionable figure. Perhaps the single book which sums up best why Chesterton is not much read on university syllabuses today is his 1914 novel The Flying Inn, also celebrating 110 years in print in 2024.

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  • A Catholic Priest’s Observations on Islam—in 1851

    A Catholic Priest’s Observations on Islam—in 18510

    Rummaging through some antique books recently, I came across a volume of church history from 1851, originally written in German by a Catholic priest, Dr. Giovanni Alzog, and translated into Italian. The volume, translated Universal History the Christian Church, covers the period from 400 until just before the Protestant Reformation. Naturally, the author had occasion

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