Coincidentally: We Band of Brothers
Bernard Severin Ingemann’s beloved Danish hymn ‘Igjemem Nat og Traengsel,” written in 1825, was published twenty-four years later in the Nyt…
Coincidentally: The Yankees and Wagner
In the shaky science of probability, it is considered bad form to ask, “How can you be sure?” The statistician…
Don Quixote and the Via Dolorosa
Times there are when readers will find books spiritual that were written with no intention of being spiritual books. The subconscious…
Trent’s Last Case by E. C. Bentley: First Among Mysteries?
London, 1936. Gilbert Keith Chesterton was dead, leaving the President’s Chair of the Detection Club vacant. Under deep mourning, the…
Coincidentally: The Cradles of 1809
Regardless of how frequently we have been inspired by the parliamentary exchanges between Thomas Babington Macaulay and William Ewart Gladstone…
Coincidentally: The Savage Breast Soothed
As music is by a universal consent of philosophy the highest of arts, it can be counted on to have…
GKC’s The Napoleon of Notting Hill: How to Be a Catholic Lunatic
America stands in need of a new revolution to free itself from the tyranny of bureaucracy and the ensuing slavery of…
Orwell’s 1984: Are We There Yet?
The second most terrifying thing about George Orwell’s 1984 is the supposition that it is possible to destroy humanity without destroying humankind….
Coincidentally: The Rosewell Incident
Proponents of the theory that aliens from outer space crashed in Roswell, New Mexico, in June of 1947 were encouraged…
The Mystery of a Century: Who Wrote His Last Bow?
Though ice cold logic was ever his bread and butter, Mr. Sherlock Holmes had a talent and taste for histrionics. While…
