On excavating the old "offenses" of Roger Scruton.

"Like a Paul Revere of the spirit, Daniel Mahoney sounds an alarm that should be heeded by all who are concerned about maintaining the indispensable cultural conditions for common life in a decent polity." - Mary Ann Glendon, Learned Hand Professor of Law, Harvard University

Outrage has become the signature emotion of American public life.

One summer when I was twenty-four, I traveled alone in Italy, on a shoestring, as a young man can who doesn’t mind sleeping in the occasional train station. 

Many literary critics consider Regina Derieva one of the great modern Russian poets.

Let yourself be guided by the hand of Saint Joseph.

Today marks the 100th Anniversary of the birth of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

Anyone who has read "Kristin Lavransdatter", Sigrid Undset's trilogy of novels about medieval Norway, is aware of the magnetic appeal of the headstrong title character and her saga of sin and redemption. 

Walker Percy (1916–1990), American novelist whose works include "The Moviegoer" and "Love in the Ruins", took as his subject "the dislocation of man in the modern age."

I’m just old enough to remember when my elders still called November 11 "Armistice Day:" the armistice in question that which stopped the shooting in the Great War.