The Witness of the 20th Century Martyrs & Joyce Kilmer
The witness of blood: Martyrs of the 20th century: Robert Royal, (president of the Faith & Reason Institute in Washington,…
The witness of a poet and patriot: Joyce Kilmer
by Amy Fahey
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Lessons from the Carnage | Video and Audio
Lectures on what we might learn from the carnage of the 20th Century. These lectures took place on Monday, November…
Classic Film: Men and Women and Community Life Part II
On October 31, Dr. Anthony Esolen will deliver part two of his three part mini-course on Classic Film. This series will…
Word of the Day: MARK
Word of the Day: MARK Today is the feast day of Saint Mark, the evangelist whose sentences, in rough to-the-point…
Word of the Day: DISCIPLE
Word of the Day: DISCIPLE More on the terrain of translation — the corrugated landscape of what we can say,…
The central problem of the century– and of our lives
This weekend I saw Witness, the powerful work by Whittaker Chambers, sitting on the shelf, and decided that it was…
Word of the Day: ALLELUIA
Word of the Day: ALLELUIA The perils of Biblical transliteration…. The man whose earth-moving machines across the street are waking…
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…
What liturgists might learn from the Masters golf tournament
Although I am neither a golfer nor a golf fan, I enjoy watching the Masters on television each year, for…
Word of the Day: EASTER
Word of the Day: EASTER The ironies of faithlessness — that it should lead to such heights of credulity, a…
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…
