Friday, September 27, 2024

The Ten Points of Tolkien’s Politics

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  As a person who has read and written about J.R.R. Tolkien for decades, I am often asked about his political views. In a sense, this is a f...
Thursday, September 19, 2024

T. S. Eliot and G. K. Chesterton

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T. S. Eliot was not appreciated by the proletariat. "Those new-fangled poems kinda bore us. He writes like he's sittin' with an...
Friday, September 13, 2024

Walking With C.S. Lewis

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  Joseph Pearce has surfaced again! The indefatigable promoter of literature, Chesterton, Lewis, and their friends has turned up in  The Ima...
Thursday, September 12, 2024

An Inkling Novel - And a Book Tally

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I just finished Looking for the King by David C. Downing.  The book is labeled "An Inkling Novel." It does indeed merit that label...
Monday, September 09, 2024

The Prophets of Technology (Including Lewis and Tolkien)

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"... T hese writers foresaw, with a startling clarity, the emergence of the technocratic order in which we live; attending to their war...
Thursday, August 29, 2024

The Path to Rome

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  In his book Literature: What Every Catholic Should Know, Joseph Pearce provides a quick overview of what he considers great work of liter...
Tuesday, August 27, 2024

The Clerihew Contest

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  At every national Chesterton Conference they have a clerihew contest. As I was not goign to attend this summer, I sent Dale Ahlquist some ...
Thursday, August 15, 2024

For the Feast of the Assumption

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  On this Feast of the Assumption, here's an essay by Chesterton, "Mary and the Convert."  I was brought up in a part of the P...
Thursday, August 08, 2024

Memorizing Lepanto

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The July/August issue of StAR (Saint Austin Review ) arrived the other day. The focus of this issue is on "Ageless Children's Liter...

Tim Walz Clerihew

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  Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has been nominated for Vice President - he hasn't been officially approved as of the time I'm posting ...
Thursday, August 01, 2024

Reading With Urgency

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  In the July/August issue of   Gilbert , an article by Mark Johnson caught my attention. In "Urgent Conversations with the Dead" ...
Saturday, July 27, 2024

Two Days Late - and a Reid Clerihew

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  So after making a point of saying I would be posting, and resurrecting the notion that I am "Thursday," I failed to post on Thur...
Thursday, July 25, 2024

The Importance of Being is the Flipside of the Importance of Doing Nothing

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 " It's because artists do not practise, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not assemble to worship reverently the great work of D...
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Thursday, July 18, 2024

The Flying Inn and Walt Whitman

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Every yer I set various reading goals. One of my goals this year was to read a G.K. Chesterton novel I had not read before. I met that goal ...
Tuesday, July 16, 2024

The Man Who IS Thursday

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  There used to be a team of writers contributing to this blog. I was not one of the original team members, but I was invited in 2006 to joi...
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Monday, July 01, 2024

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy IS Catholic!

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On social media some folks have been engaging in a debate over whether The Lord of the Rings Trilogy is Christian/Catholic. Some argue that ...
Friday, May 24, 2024

Joseph Pearce's Poetry List

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  Joseph Pearce shows up in the strangest places. I used to teach at a classical education school. Although I'm now retired, I still get...
Saturday, May 18, 2024

The Books Have Arrived!

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Okay, as if it didn't already have too many books (Too many books? Is there such a thing?) two more waiting at my front door this mornin...

The latest Saint Austin Review: Chesterton!

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  The always delightful Saint Austen Review (StAR) has come out with an issue dedicated to G. K. Chesterton and Fulton Sheen: Defenders of ...
Tuesday, April 23, 2024

St. Robert Southwell Clerihew

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  Saint Robert Southwell sat musing for a spell, then softly said, "It does seem a shame, Americans don't properly pronounce my nam...