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Literature

  • Never Say Die: Lessons From Michael Walsh’s ‘Last Stands’
    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 than surrender to their enemies. Why do they die battling to the ...
    January 20, 2021BY Jeff Minick
  • Book Review: ‘Mob Rule’: Is This Our Future?
    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, 2021BY Linda Wiegenfeld
  • More Dante Now, Please! (Part 4): The Road of Repentance
    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, 2021BY James Sale
  • Some Lessons From Thornton Wilder’s ‘Our Town’
    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, 2021BY Jeff Minick
  • Wholesome Life Lessons for All in ‘On the Art of Writing’ by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
    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, 2020BY Lorraine Ferrier
  • Selling Our Souls: Lessons From ‘The Devil and Daniel Webster’
    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, 2020BY Jeff Minick
  • More Dante Now, Please! (Part 3): Let Beauty Begin
    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, 2020BY James Sale
  • Winter Poems, a Dark Season, and the Power of Verse
    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, 2020BY Jeff Minick
  • Book Review: ‘The Three Cs That Made America Great: Christianity, Capitalism, and the Constitution’
    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, 2020BY Linda Wiegenfeld
  • Book Review: ‘Wrapped Up in Christmas Joy’: The Healing Power of Love
    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, 2020BY Judd Hollander
  • Jules Maigret: The Common Man’s Hero
    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, 2020BY Benjamin Welton
  • More Dante Now, Please! (Part 2): Let’s Hear It for Free Will!
    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, 2020BY James Sale
  • Rediscovering the Art of Poetry
    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, 2020BY Evan Mantyk
  • ‘The Birth-Mark’: An Allegory for Our Time
    ‘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, 2020BY Jeff Minick
  • Book Review: ‘One Vote Away: How a Single Supreme Court Seat Can Change History’
    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, 2020BY Linda Wiegenfeld
  • Old Men, Stout Hearts: Some Perspectives in Verse
    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, 2020BY Jeff Minick
  • Truth Tellers: Leo Tolstoy, in Love With Truth
    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, 2020BY Raymond Beegle
  • The Great Detective Fought the Anarchists
    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, 2020BY Benjamin Welton
  • The Ambassador of Good Fiction: ‘Anxious People’ by Fredrik Backman
    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, 2020BY Fred J. Eckert
  • Book Lists: What Our Students Are Reading and Why It Matters
    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, 2020BY Jeff Minick
  • Delightful Dispatches From a Small Maine City
    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, 2020BY Fred J. Eckert
  • Book Review: ‘Charter Schools and Their Enemies’
    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, 2020BY Linda Wiegenfeld
  • Book Review: ‘Classical Architecture and Monuments of Washington, D.C.: A History & Guide’
    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, 2020BY Lorraine Ferrier
  • Book Review: ‘The Wild and Twisted Branch’
    Book Review: ‘The Wild and Twisted Branch’
    “The Wild and Twisted Branch” is a factual account of Stavros Metropoulos, a farmer and businessman who endured ...
    September 20, 2020BY George E. Kontis
  • Parlez-Vous Français? Americans and Foreign Languages
    Parlez-Vous Français? Americans and Foreign Languages
    Man of letters Samuel Johnson once remarked, “Depend on it, sir, when a man knows he is to ...
    September 16, 2020BY Jeff Minick
  • God’s Detective: The Everlasting Goodness of Father Brown
    God’s Detective: The Everlasting Goodness of Father Brown
    When British journalist Gilbert Keith (G.K.) Chesterton began writing his Father Brown detective stories around 1910, the genre ...
    September 11, 2020BY Benjamin Welton
  • Emily Dickinson Is the Unlikely Hero of Our Time
    Emily Dickinson Is the Unlikely Hero of Our Time
    Since her death in 1886, Emily Dickinson has haunted us in many forms. She has been the precocious ...
    September 9, 2020BY The Conversation
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