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Are We Making Heroes of Our Villains?
"I am human, and I think nothing human is alien to me." —Terence, Roman playwright Nothing human is alien to me? Really? What do we think about that statement? True ...
November 19, 2019
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Jeff Minick
The Pity of War: The Remarkable Poets of World War I
For most of us, November is one of those in-between months, in this case a pause between October’s ...
November 6, 2019
BY
Jeff Minick
My Literary Dig: An Exploration of ‘The Best Loved Poems of the American People’
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. L.P. Hartley, “The Go-Between” There it sat ...
November 4, 2019
BY
Jeff Minick
Dancing Through the Darkness of Mao’s China
Sometimes the impact of mass tragedy gets lost in the statistics. When death tolls are in the tens ...
October 28, 2019
BY
Ryan Moffatt
The Great Flood and What It Tells Us
Perhaps no myth—if myth it be—is more relevant today than the myth of the Great Flood that nearly ...
October 23, 2019
BY
James Sale
Well Done, John Donne
“John Donne—Anne Donne—Undone.” Fledgling poet John Donne (1572–1631) wrote these words in 1601 after his secret marriage to ...
October 23, 2019
BY
Jeff Minick
Some Poets Look at Autumn
Autumn, wrote poet and journalist William Cullen Bryant, is “the year’s last, loveliest smile,” and many of us ...
October 17, 2019
BY
Jeff Minick
Red Flags: Dostoevsky’s Message for Us
Given a choice, most of us are more inclined to read contemporary fiction than the classics. If we ...
October 17, 2019
BY
Jeff Minick
The Old Stories Are Best: Adam and Eve
In my last article for The Epoch Times, “What’s Wrong With the World,” I touched on the fact ...
October 10, 2019
BY
James Sale
An Uncanny Clue to the Authorship of Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’
“Hamlet” is arguably the most famous of William Shakespeare’s plays. It is the source of such famous lines ...
October 8, 2019
BY
Evan Mantyk
What’s Wrong With the World?
In 1910, G.K. Chesterton’s book “What’s Wrong With the World” was published, and the title did not include ...
October 3, 2019
BY
James Sale
Book Review: ‘America’s Forgotten Colonial History’
Many of the settlers could never have owned land in Europe. This new advantage led to the tradition ...
October 2, 2019
BY
Linda Wiegenfeld
And Still She Speaks to Us: Truth and Beauty in ‘Antigone’
Truth. Beauty. Timelessness. These three elements exist in any great work of art. Though most of us are ...
September 30, 2019
BY
Jeff Minick
The Tower of Babel We Build
Ever since the Enlightenment of the 18th century, it has become increasingly difficult to talk of myths and ...
September 18, 2019
BY
James Sale
My Heart Is Like a Singing Bird: Emily Dickinson and Christina Rossetti
Both women were born within five days of each other in 1830. Both came from families prominent in ...
September 17, 2019
BY
Jeff Minick
The Best of CS Lewis’s Fiction: ‘Till We Have Faces’
Though he died over 50 years ago, C.S. Lewis remains popular both as a writer of Christian apologetics ...
September 17, 2019
BY
Jeff Minick
Confessions of a Late-Blooming Lover of Great Literature
Anyone, at any age, can become a lover of literature and will be a better and happier person ...
September 12, 2019
BY
Susannah Pearce
War, Disillusionment, Literature, and the Divine
This year marks the centennial of the Treaty of Versailles, formally ending World War I, that bloodbath which ...
September 10, 2019
BY
Jeff Minick
‘Pietas,’ ‘Virtus,’ ‘Familia’: Some Lessons From Virgil’s ‘Aeneid’
“Arma virumque cano….” Those three words—“I sing of arms and the man”—open one of the great classics of ...
August 27, 2019
BY
Jeff Minick
Swashbuckler: Lessons in Morality From Peter Blood, the Pirate
“Captain Blood.” For years, mention of the novel by Rafael Sabatini (1875–1950) about pirates in the Caribbean would ...
August 26, 2019
BY
Jeff Minick
Gulliver’s Benevolent Breakthrough
"Gulliver's Travels" show that it's possible for us to rise above the ideologies that divide us.
August 25, 2019
BY
Eric Bess
Is America Losing Its Soul?
If you haven’t read David Horowitz’s latest book “Dark Agenda: The War to Destroy Christian America,” you should. Horowitz ...
August 23, 2019
BY
Linda Wiegenfeld
The Holy Grail: Behind the Most Famous King Arthur Quest
The Holy Grail. What is it? Today, you can call something the Holy Grail of fill-in-the-blank. You can ...
August 22, 2019
BY
Evan Mantyk
Finding the True Self, Part 10: Navigating Through Anger, the Last Temptation
Finally, Odysseus comes to the last of the nine temptations of the soul as represented in the Nine ...
August 20, 2019
BY
James Sale
The Johnson Factor
In July 2019, Boris Johnson, the leader of the Conservative Party became prime minister of the United Kingdom. ...
August 15, 2019
BY
Jeff Minick
‘Kristin Lavransdatter’: Time Machine to Medieval Norway
The greatest of novelists—Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Mark Twain, and others—sweep us off to a time ...
August 13, 2019
BY
Jeff Minick
One Page at a Time: Bringing Back the Old Book
In the 1945 movie “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,” based on Betty Smith’s novel about immigrants living in ...
August 7, 2019
BY
Jeff Minick
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