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 One of these days I will get around to reading a novel I’ve started and…
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 I’ve done this one before, but I am thinking these days about the Beatitudes, whose…
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 I am reading an excellent new book, The Decay of Truth in Education, by Kevin…
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 As I said the other day, we’re now beginning to read Virgil’s Aeneid, in the…
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 A facebook friend asked me the other day why we don’t say BLOUND for the…
Word of the Day: CIVIL When the Gauls under their chieftain Brennus — lop off the nominative ending and we…
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 Two thirds of our students at Thomas More College are not at the school today,…
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 The first imparting of a CHARACTER in Scripture, as I see it, comes in Genesis,…
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 Let’s suppose that you are the sacred author of Genesis, and you are inspired by…
Reading two books at the moment, for the same purpose, though it’s hard to see from the titles what they…
Below, something I wrote from last year. At Thomas More College, every freshman enrolls in a course called The Way…
Word of the Day: HEART “Now when he was in Jerusalem at the passover feast,” says Saint John, that eagle…
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