Book Review: France in the Age of Louis XIII and Richelieu by Victor-Lucien Tapié
“Beneath the rule of men entirely great / The pen is mightier than the sword.”
– Richelieu; Or, the Conspiracy II. 2.
Tag: culture
Book Review: The Lusíads by Luís Vaz de Camões
“There will be no lack of Christian daring / In this little house of Portugal.”
– The Lusíads VII. 14.
The Fate of Phos Phokarion
“Grief everywhere, Everywhere terror, and all shapes of death.”
– Aeneid II. 490-491
Book Review of J.R.R. Tolkien: Myth, Morality, and Religion by Richard L. Purtill
“Not all those who wander are lost.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
Book Review: Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
“Canst thou draw out the leviathan with a hook, or canst thou tie his tongue with a cord?”
– Job 40:20
Men Among the Ruins: How the Feminization of Higher Education Destroyed Academia
Why feelings matter more than facts in academia.
Book Review: The Life of J.-K. Huysmans by Robert Baldick
“Lord, you gave him great talent, and he used it for your glory. You gave him great suffering, and he accepted it for your blessing…”
– Abbé Fontaine
Trobadourism: The Idolization of Romance and Its Decadent Consequences, Past and Present
“Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, / But bears it out even to the edge of doom.”
– William Shakespeare
Book Review: Religion and the Rise of Western Culture by Christopher Dawson
“The importance of these centuries…is not to be found in the external order they attempted to create, but in the internal change they brought about in the soul of Western man—a change which can never be entirely undone expect by the total negation or destruction of Western man himself.”
– Christopher Dawson