Continuing the series of interviews I gave to the “Pints with Jack” C. S. Lewis podcast, here’s our discussion of my book, Tolkien: Man & Myth:
https://youtu.be/3bGFBdU1L1c

The Epoch Times has just published my interview with Siobhan Nash-Marshall, the translator of a new novella about the Armenian Genocide:
https://www.theepochtimes.com/exposing-the-first-20th-century-genocide-the-armenian-genocide_3395825.html

Hungary is leading the resistance to globalism with courageous pro-life and pro-family initiatives:
https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2020/06/hungary-resists-globalist-marxist-alliance-joseph-pearce.html

Here is what is newly posted to the Inner Sanctum of my personal website, jpearce.co:
In this week’s Home is Where the Hearth Is podcast I discuss the shameful sacrificing of a noble priest to the mob.

In this week’s Revisiting Old Favourites I begin the reading of Belloc’s The Path to Rome.

For this week’s Poem of the Week, I’ve selected my own poem “Solstice Sunrise” to celebrate the summer solstice.

In an action-packed week, the Ladydale Diary follows the day-to-day doings of the Pearce family.

Please consider supporting me and my work by becoming a member of the Inner Sanctum. Go to www.jpearce.co for further details.

In this 150th anniversary year of Hilaire Belloc’s birth, I celebrate the late Jesuit Fr. James Schall’s book on Belloc:
https://www.ncregister.com/blog/josephpearce/remembering-hilaire-belloc-with-father-james-schall

Here are my musings on the wisdom to be found in Fr. Daniel Moloney’s new book and how it is ironic that this prophet of mercy has been made a scapegoat, sacrificed by his own archdiocese to satisfy the merciless demands of the mob:
https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2020/06/24/no-mercy-no-justice-fr-moloneys-lessons-for-minds-that-hate/

Please visit my Exhibitor Page for this weekend’s Catholic Homeschool Conference which features a short video in which I explain the benefits of joining the Inner Sanctum of my website and also a sample of the exclusive content available to Inner Sanctum subscribers, which is a podcast on Beowulf and Anglo-Saxon England. Visit here to learn more: https://exhibitors.catholichomeschoolconference.com/inner-sanctum-joseph-pearce/

Here’s my appearance on the Pints with Jack podcast, discussing my book, Further Up & Further In: Understanding Narnia:
https://youtu.be/tDLFmnzN9iw

Bach and Beethoven are treated with contempt in music departments because they are European. Here’s my interview with a music professor who speaks out against cultural Marxism and its iconoclasm:
https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2020/06/music-time-terror-joseph-pearce.html

The July/August issue of the St. Austin Review is winging its way to the printer.

Highlights of the new issue:

Kathleen Curran Sweeney reflects on Charles Peguy’s poem, Eve.

Cristina Pineda finds “a new paradigm for healthy relationships” in Northanger Abbey.

Jacob Terneus admires “the pious sex”.

Sarah Kaderbek finds “feminine love and the love of the feminine” in the Lady Éowyn.

Lisa Coutras studies “Tolkien’s Theology of the Feminine” and finds “Heroic Love and the Marian Valkyrie”.

Kevin O’Brien considers “Women: The Only Realists”.

Fr. Dwight Longenecker flirts with “Ladies of the Knight”.

Manuel Alfonseca dismisses “Gender Ideology as a Pseudoscience”.

Bradley J. Birzer goes “From Venus to the Virgin, From Victory to Hope”.

K. V. Turley ponders “Greta Garbo’s Telling Silence”.

Ken Clark contemplates François Boucher’s Rest on the Flight to Egypt.

Susan Treacy interviews classical composer Mark Nowakowsky.

Donald DeMarco muses on “That Touch of Nature that Makes the Whole World Kin”.

John Beaumont witnesses the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin and Sacred Scripture on a convert’s path to Rome.

William Fahey writes “In Defense of a Paleo-Vacation”.

Fr. Benedict Kiely basks in “Gratitude and the Gospel Goodness of G. K. Chesterton”.

Stephen Tomlinson reviews Apostles of the Culture of Life by Donald DeMarco.

Lindsey Valancius reviews The Myth of an Anti-Science Church by Gerard M. Verschuuren.

Marie Dudzik reviews The Innocents and Other Stories by Gertrud von le Fort.

Plus new poetry by Molly Farinholt, Daniel Galef and Jane Greer.

Become a Wise Man – Follow the StAR! Subscribe today at staustinreview.org.