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Dec 11, 2025
2025 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of the great modern mythmaker Edgar Rice Burroughs—creator of Tarzan, Mars explorer John Carter, and other figures. Though...
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Nov 10, 2025
“We often forgive those who bore us,” wrote La Rochefoucauld, “but never those whom we bore.” Charles Pooter, the Nobody in question of George and Weedon...
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Oct 7, 2025
Samuel Johnson said that he preferred to read according to inclination, for “what we read with inclination makes a much stronger impression. If we read without inclination,...
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Jul 9, 2025
If you’re looking for a short, punchy thriller with a spiritual component as well as physical action, Andy Fowler’s 2024 novella, The Condemned is probably for...
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Jun 23, 2025
I am certainly glad that the Trump Administration is doing its best to crush the ideology of DEI—Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. While the terms themselves can be used in...
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Jun 11, 2025
2024 was a year of anniversaries for 1928 Nobel Prize winner and Catholic convert, Sigrid Undset. The Feast of All Saints marked the centenary of her reception into the Catholic...
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May 20, 2025
The scholar and researcher Stanley Kurtz once opined that one can really be a great reader in only one of three categories: books; journals and newspapers; or the internet. I’m...
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May 2, 2025
All the world’s wiseacres in arms against themShan’t detach my heart for a single momentFrom the man-like beasts of the earthy stories–Badger or...
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Feb 19, 2025
University education has long been both scorned and desired in America. L. Frank Baum’s classic The Wizard of Oz lampooned college students—both their failure...
Dec 11, 20252025 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of the great modern mythmaker Edgar Rice Burroughs—creator of Tarzan, Mars explorer John Carter, and other figures. Though...
Nov 10, 2025“We often forgive those who bore us,” wrote La Rochefoucauld, “but never those whom we bore.” Charles Pooter, the Nobody in question of George and Weedon...
Oct 7, 2025Samuel Johnson said that he preferred to read according to inclination, for “what we read with inclination makes a much stronger impression. If we read without inclination,...
Jul 9, 2025If you’re looking for a short, punchy thriller with a spiritual component as well as physical action, Andy Fowler’s 2024 novella, The Condemned is probably for...
Jun 23, 2025I am certainly glad that the Trump Administration is doing its best to crush the ideology of DEI—Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. While the terms themselves can be used in...
May 20, 2025The scholar and researcher Stanley Kurtz once opined that one can really be a great reader in only one of three categories: books; journals and newspapers; or the internet. I’m...
Feb 19, 2025University education has long been both scorned and desired in America. L. Frank Baum’s classic The Wizard of Oz lampooned college students—both their failure...