The Beatific Vision: The Solution to Ancient Paradoxes | John McCarthy
Here is the video of a lecture by Dr. John McCarthy’s on The Beatific Vision. The lecture is 45 minutes…
The Role of Children’s Literature in a Digital Age | Dr. Amy Fahey
Here is the video of a lecture by Dr. Amy Fahey on Children’s Literature. The lecture is 45 minutes with a…
The Role of Children’s Literature in a Digital Age | Dr. Amy Fahey
Here is the audio for a lecture by Dr. Amy Fahey on Children’s Literature. The lecture is 45 minutes with…
Word of the Day: SOLITARY
Word of the Day: SOLITARY We finished in class today the greatest poem ever written in English: Some natural tears…
Word of the Day: WATCH
Word of the Day: WATCH One of these days I will get around to reading a novel I’ve started and…
Word of the Day: PILGRIM
Word of the Day: PILGRIM “Pilgrim,” says Tom Doniphon to Ranse Stoddard, “YOU didn’t kill Liberty Valance. I did.” Everybody…
Word of the Day: CLEAN
Word of the Day: CLEAN I’ve done this one before, but I am thinking these days about the Beatitudes, whose…
Equality, You Say?
When I was a senior at Princeton, somebody knocked on my door, peddling a petition. He wanted me to sign…
Word of the Day: LEARN
Word of the Day: LEARN I am reading an excellent new book, The Decay of Truth in Education, by Kevin…
Different World Alert
I’ve been placing books on new shelves we’ve just put up, and came across a handsomely bound monograph, a doctoral…
Word of the Day: PIOUS
Word of the Day: PIOUS As I said the other day, we’re now beginning to read Virgil’s Aeneid, in the…
Word of the Day: DUST
Word of the Day: DUST An hour late, I know, but a good word for the whole season. “Remember, man,…
Word of the Day: BLIND
Word of the Day: BLIND A facebook friend asked me the other day why we don’t say BLOUND for the…
Word of the Day: CIVIL
Word of the Day: CIVIL When the Gauls under their chieftain Brennus — lop off the nominative ending and we…
Word of the Day: LAW
Word of the Day: LAW Many years ago I took an opportunity to be part of an eight-person faculty seminar,…
Word of the Day: LIFE
Word of the Day: LIFE Two thirds of our students at Thomas More College are not at the school today,…
Word of the Day: ECONOMY
Word of the Day: ECONOMY Here’s a word that needs redeeming, like POLITICAL. (By the way, I love the English…
Word of the Day: CHARACTER
Word of the Day: CHARACTER The first imparting of a CHARACTER in Scripture, as I see it, comes in Genesis,…
Word of the Day: TRUTH
TRUTH used to be a complete defense against the accusation that you had libeled somebody. Nowadays TRUTH is not your…
Word of the Day: WEEK
Word of the Day: WEEK Let’s suppose that you are the sacred author of Genesis, and you are inspired by…
