144: Subjects or Citizens?
144: Subjects or Citizens?
You’d Be Cheerful Too
“The crowd was still a crowd, and was surging cheerfully back and forth like a large lake on a choppy day.”
So Then. Letters.
Letter to the Editor: Thanks for saying here what isn’t being said elsewhere. But one point that I want to address is this growing trend of anti-cop, anti-government anger that is distancing ...
An Unwelcome Miracle
“She very carefully allowed her gaze to slide over the clock on the balcony again, and was dismayed to see that it seemed to be running backward, like Hezekiah’s sun dial.”
Book of the Month/May 2020
I was recently asked to provide a blurb for Anthony Esolen’s new book, Sex and the Unreal City. I read the manuscript enthusiastically, and sent in the blurb already, but this puts me in the unfortunate position of recommending a book to you that isn’t out yet. Soon. It will be out soon. I also …
Minneapolis Burning and Black Privilege
Introduction: As we look back over the last week or so, I think we can agree that it was a week filled with horrors. It began with the terrible death of George Floyd, his neck pinned under a policeman's ...
Audio Reading of Post
Lord of Life, Dealer of Death, Giver of Gifts
Sermon Video Introduction: Today we celebrate Pentecost, the ancient harvest festival of the Jews, the great day on which the Holy Spirit was poured out upon the church, and three thousand souls ...
A Bit Conflicted
“She was now flirting, and she knew it. But so was he, and it was all still quite impossible, and she was furiously unhappy with her very happy self.”
A Kiln That Desires to Leave No Brick Half Baked
Many of you know of my connection to New St. Andrews College, but a number of you may not know about one of the more exciting projects under the aegis of NSA that I am involved with — which is to say, the Camperdown Writers’ Kiln. This is the name of the MFA program that …