Literature

Making the Most Out of Our Winter of Discontent 0
- Philosophy, Culture, Literature
- October 13, 2022
In C. S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, the Witch casts an evil spell over Narnia, making it a cold and barren land, locked in snow and ice where it’s “always winter but never Christmas.” Now, there’s a chilling thought. It’s still early October and last night the mercury dropped into the
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The Classics Are for Everyone, Not Just Old, Dead, White Men 6
- Education, History, Literature, Western Civilization
- October 7, 2022
Yes, yes, and yes! That was what I shouted, in the silence of my heart, when I finished Louis Markos’ online review “How Classical Education Can Liberate Black America.” Earlier that same week, I’d read yet another account of an attack on the classics of Western civilization, the Great Books as they were once called,
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Finding a Great Getaway From Our Crazy Time 12
- Culture, Education, Literature, Politics, Uncategorized
- September 15, 2022
“You have to be always drunk,” wrote the French poet Charles Baudelaire. “That’s all there is to it—it’s the only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk.” “But on what?” Baudelaire asks. With “wine, with
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Good Reading Is the Cure for Gullibility 3
- Culture, Education, Family, Literature
- August 22, 2022
The other day, a friend of mine posted on social media a picture of her three children, sitting in the living room, each with a nose in a book. She was having a proud-mom moment, noting that she couldn’t believe the day had finally come when all her children were able to read on their
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The Real War of Our Time Is Humans vs. ‘Humanity’2
- Culture, History, Literature
- August 19, 2022
These days, a diverse crowd of activists, comprised of some of the world’s wealthiest elites down to college kids, see themselves as saviors blessed with the omniscience to rescue humanity from its grievous faults and sins. To fight “global warming,” for instance, climate change advocates demand the elimination of fossil fuels, the consumption of insects
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Woke Silliness at Its Worst: A Non-binary Joan of Arc 1
- Culture, Entertainment, History, International, Literature
- August 17, 2022
A new play about Joan of Arc, I, Joan, opens in London next week. After all the plays, poetry, novels, and biographies published since she was burned at the stake in 1431, it’s difficult to imagine that anything fresh can be said about the Maid of Orleans, However, the Globe Theatre, a successor to Shakespeare’s theatre,
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