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Literature
How a Lost Manuscript Revealed the First Poets of Italian Literature
Imagine a world where we knew the name of Homer, but the poetry of "The Odyssey" was lost to us. That was the world of the early Italian Renaissance during ...
February 10, 2021
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Maria Clotilde Camboni
The Journey to Understand Love Can Begin Young
“We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey,” wrote ...
February 6, 2021
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Linda Wiegenfeld
A Looking Glass for Our Time: Lessons From the 200-Year-Old Novel ‘Ivanhoe’
Late last year, in separate conversations with three friends, I realized how slack I had grown in the ...
February 2, 2021
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Jeff Minick
Landscapes, Legends, and Literature
A sense of place affects us throughout our lives—or at least it should. Think of walking on a ...
January 31, 2021
BY
Elissa Michele Zacher
Never Say Die: Lessons From Michael Walsh’s ‘Last Stands’
Throughout history, men with their backs to the wall have time and again fought against overwhelming odds rather ...
January 20, 2021
BY
Jeff Minick
Book Review: ‘Mob Rule’: Is This Our Future?
“The two most dangerous things in the world today are sincere ignorance and conscious stupidity,” Dr. Martin Luther ...
January 15, 2021
BY
Linda Wiegenfeld
More Dante Now, Please! (Part 4): The Road of Repentance
This is the fourth and final article in this particular Dante series. We remember that we read Dante ...
January 7, 2021
BY
James Sale
Some Lessons From Thornton Wilder’s ‘Our Town’
Around the age of 55, I discovered I could no longer trust myself to read certain poems to ...
January 5, 2021
BY
Jeff Minick
Wholesome Life Lessons for All in ‘On the Art of Writing’ by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
Last year, while thumbing through books in my local thrift shop, I stumbled upon an intriguing book called ...
December 23, 2020
BY
Lorraine Ferrier
Selling Our Souls: Lessons From ‘The Devil and Daniel Webster’
America sports a pantheon of folk heroes, picturesque inventions of the imagination or real-life celebrities made mythical by ...
December 17, 2020
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Jeff Minick
More Dante Now, Please! (Part 3): Let Beauty Begin
In our last article, we saw how the issue of human free will played out in Dante’s Hell. ...
December 11, 2020
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James Sale
Winter Poems, a Dark Season, and the Power of Verse
Poets often celebrate the beauty of the four seasons in their verse or employ them as emblems, symbols ...
December 9, 2020
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Jeff Minick
Book Review: ‘The Three Cs That Made America Great: Christianity, Capitalism, and the Constitution’
At this moment in history, let’s remind ourselves of all we stand to lose if we turn away ...
December 6, 2020
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Linda Wiegenfeld
Book Review: ‘Wrapped Up in Christmas Joy’: The Healing Power of Love
Every so often a careless gesture can end up becoming, in hindsight, quite a happy accident. So it ...
December 2, 2020
BY
Judd Hollander
Jules Maigret: The Common Man’s Hero
French publisher Librairie Arthème Fayard introduced the world to Jules Maigret, an inspector with Paris’s Brigade Criminelle, with ...
December 1, 2020
BY
Benjamin Welton
More Dante Now, Please! (Part 2): Let’s Hear It for Free Will!
In Part 1 of this article, we spoke of the importance of young minds being exposed to great ...
November 25, 2020
BY
James Sale
Rediscovering the Art of Poetry
There is something magical about a well-written poem. Using nothing more than ink on paper, one can experience ...
November 13, 2020
BY
Evan Mantyk
‘The Birth-Mark’: An Allegory for Our Time
The plot of the short story is simple. Aylmer, a scientist, marries the beautiful Georgiana, whose face bears ...
November 11, 2020
BY
Jeff Minick
Book Review: ‘One Vote Away: How a Single Supreme Court Seat Can Change History’
“Equal Justice Under Law”: These words, written above the main entrance to the Supreme Court Building, express the ...
November 1, 2020
BY
Linda Wiegenfeld
Old Men, Stout Hearts: Some Perspectives in Verse
When I shop at Martin’s, our local grocery store here in Front Royal, Virginia, I am often struck ...
October 21, 2020
BY
Jeff Minick
Truth Tellers: Leo Tolstoy, in Love With Truth
“The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, who is, was, ...
October 17, 2020
BY
Raymond Beegle
The Great Detective Fought the Anarchists
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) was never a fan of his most popular creation, the so-called great detective ...
October 10, 2020
BY
Benjamin Welton
The Ambassador of Good Fiction: ‘Anxious People’ by Fredrik Backman
Reading “Anxious People” reminded me why I became such a huge admirer of Swedish novelist Fredrik Backman. He ...
October 7, 2020
BY
Fred J. Eckert
Book Lists: What Our Students Are Reading and Why It Matters
So there I was at the Outer Banks of North Carolina late this summer, ensconced like a prince ...
October 3, 2020
BY
Jeff Minick
Delightful Dispatches From a Small Maine City
Happening upon “The Detective in the Dooryard: Reflections of a Maine Cop” by Timothy Cotton is like discovering ...
September 29, 2020
BY
Fred J. Eckert
Book Review: ‘Charter Schools and Their Enemies’
Despite having worked for 45 years in the public school system exclusively, I believe strongly in school choice. ...
September 27, 2020
BY
Linda Wiegenfeld
Book Review: ‘Classical Architecture and Monuments of Washington, D.C.: A History & Guide’
When life is chaotic, we often return home for respite. We may look to our family, faith, and ...
September 23, 2020
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Lorraine Ferrier
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