A new novel explores the implacable quest for glory embodied by the heroes of ancient Greece, reflected in a contemporary classicist desperate for his own share of immortality
Nadya WilliamsApril 14, 2026
On Good Friday, Anton Chekhov’s classic short story, “The Student,” bears revisiting as a tale of transition from near blasphemous pessimism to luminous optimism for the future
Jonathan EnglishApril 3, 2026
New moves to teach Orwell’s 1984 as a piece of pro-totalitarian literature in Russian schools may seem a risibly obvious inversion of the truth – but so are contemporary Hollywood attempts to repaint Animal Farm as a pro-Communist fable.
Steven TuckerMarch 30, 2026
Could there be something about belief in God that leads Christians to cultivate a distinctive literary culture, even as most Americans read less and less?
Nadya WilliamsFebruary 17, 2026
Dark humor, in the right context, can be a powerful remedy against the numbness to evil that humans can so often develop
Rebekah BillsSeptember 25, 2025
While gene-editing and all-seeing orbs belonged to the realm of fantasy in Tolkien’s own time, today these technologies have the capacity to fundamentally reshape societies and the global order of nations
Siobhan Heekin-CanedySeptember 19, 2025
Conservatives must become more attentive to how the use and abuse of the English language shapes politics and culture
Siobhan Heekin-CanedySeptember 10, 2025
Without the libraries of mind necessary to sustain deep thought, built up over a lifetime of reading, we will never be able to stretch beyond our finitude to a properly-ordered understanding of God and man
Nadya WilliamsSeptember 8, 2025
The study of the Great Books is excellent preparation to understand the theory and practice of international relations
Siobhan Heekin-CanedyApril 28, 2025
