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Book Review: The Odyssey by Homer
“So it is that nothing is more sweet in the end than country and parents ever, even when one lives in a fertile place, when it is in alien country, far from his parents.”
Odyssey IX. 33-36
Book Review: The Ancient City by Numa Fustel de Coulanges (Part I)
“Fortunately, the past never completely dies for man. Man may forget it, but he always preserves it within him.”
– Fustel de Coulanges
The Slaughtering of Innocence: Why Age Verification Laws Fail to Protect the Youth
An unacceptable and impractical solution to one of the gravest evils of our time.
Book Review: Beowulf
“Choose, dear Beowulf, the better part,
eternal rewards. Do not give way to pride.”
– Beowulf. 1759-1760.
Book Review: Inferno by Dante Alighieri
“O highest Wisdom, how much art you show
in Heaven, on earth, and in the evil world!
How justly does your power apportion all!”
– Inferno XIX. 10-12.
Book Review: Piers Plowman by William Langland
Why Langland’s allegorical poem about the spiritual life ought to inspire us today.
Book Review: Phèdre by Jean Racine
How this striking classic of the French stage has much to tell us about the Classical world and our world.
Beyond Caricature and Corruption: Hermann Göring, the Third Reich’s Mark Antony
A Book Review of Göring: A Biography by David Irving. How the struggle of Hitler’s Reichsmarschall between honor and vice contributed to the Third Reich’s fall.
Book Review: The Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis
“Whence comes the Innovator’s authority to pick and choose?”
– C. S. Lewis