A Flight into Reality
The study of literature makes you free of the solipsism of the present, to see more clearly what Russell Kirk called “the permanent things.”
Paris Is No Stranger to Sacrilege
The Neo-paganism evident in the expensive show put on for the opening of the Olympics was just another example in a long history of official French ultra-secularist de-Christianization.
Turning on Children
The nations of the West have turned against children. They are committing suicide.
Fun with Wodehouse
The works of P.G. Wodehouse contain a seemingly unlimited supply of fun quotes to help break the doom and gloom of today’s news.
They Hated the Eucharistic Congress and Loved the Olympic Blasphemy
To lefty Catholics, the great evil is “conservatism,” so they will support anything that opposes it, and criticize anything that advances it.
The Paris Olympics: Caligula Redux
The tragedy was not the outrageous blasphemy. It was the absence of howling outrage.
The Olympic Drag Queen Show Wasn’t Just Mockery
The Olympic Drag Show was a validation of the beliefs of many wayward Christians who have long supported degenerate lifestyles.
Chaste Sleuths Win by Popular Acclaim
Seldom promiscuous, some popular fiction detectives are sedately married, but more often single, when not in sacred vows: an unwitting homage paid by secular culture to the Christian religion.
Pride Month 2024: How Did We Get Here?
The deep roots of our current social crisis lie in failed subsidiarity.
The War on Beauty
In 2024, it seems we have betrayed the classical ideals of beauty in favor of something more superficial and emptier, something that prioritizes shock value over substance.
A Writer on Land and Sea
Chesterton sat and wrote about great adventures; Belloc only wrote about them once he had been up and away and lived the adventure.
Homer Versus Virgil
Considering the epics of Homer and Virgil will enable us to understand the epochs in which they lived and in which we live and to move toward answering them.
We Must Know Ourselves To Give of Ourselves
If you can only love what you know, then not knowing who you are prevents your either knowing or loving anyone else.
The Beauty of Tradition
“Traditional” Catholics have all the best stories and music and art, if for no other reason than that moral indifference does not a drama make.
What We Saw at the Groomer Show
I went to a drag show and found that dragsters are laughably untalented, and the crowd for this kind of thing is mostly older, angry, lefty ladies.
Our Greatest Pilgrim Poet?
Not since the great Metaphysical Poets of the Elizabethan Age has there been such a flowering of creative genius as seen in the verse of just one 20th century poet, T.S. Eliot.
Hell’s Fury for Harrison Butker
If you’re sick of the bullying thugs of cancel culture, then stand with Harrison Butker. Now they’re coming for Butker. Next, they’ll come for you.
The Met Gala and Modern Beauty
The Met Gala’s display of modern “beauty” raises questions about what it means to be beautiful.
The Cultural Relevance of Intelligent Design
Intelligent Design proponents such as Stephen C. Meyer have been able to enter into a wider cultural conversation about our purpose and the meaning of life.
An Unexamined Death is not Worth Dying
We must be determined to identify those few necessary things we must affirm in order to arrive safely on the other side.
