Please join me and my fellow Troubadours for a series of five free online summits commencing this coming Tuesday. For more details and to register, go to:  https://www.chesterton.org/troubadours/

Please join me this Saturday at Crusade.Live, an online conference featuring many great speakers. My own talk, which will be at 6pm EST, is titled “Ethics in Commerce: The catholic Moral Theology of Economics, Private Property Rights, & Subsidiarity”. For further details go to crusade.live.

What can literature teach us about the Coronavirus? More than we might think. Read on to learn the lesson:
https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2020/03/29/lessons-from-literature-on-the-coronavirus/

Here’s why Pride will lead to tyranny via anarchy, and how it begins with putting ourselves first:
https://www.ncregister.com/blog/josephpearce/just-be-you-versus-you-be-just

And now for something completely different, as Monty Python might say:
https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2020/03/shire-pestilence-fairytale-joseph-pearce.html

Concluding my trilogy of essays recounting my impressions upon re-watching Peter Jackson’s three Lord of the Rings movies:
https://www.faithandculture.com/home/2020/3/27/revisiting-the-return-of-the-king

I was deeply moved by this address by William Fahey, President of Thomas More College of Liberal Arts, which warrants the fifteen minutes of time that watching it entails. I am a Visiting Fellow at Thomas More College, at which I have taught, and I can say, with no hesitation, that it is the finest Catholic liberal arts school with which I have ever been associated. Find out more about Thomas More College and be edified at the same time:
https://thomasmorecollege.edu/2020/03/president-gives-video-address-about-tmc-and-covid-19-crisis/

The Inner Sanctum of my personal website has new content every week. Here is what’s new this week:
The latest in a series of podcasts on “What Every Catholic Should Know About Literature”.
The beginning of a new series of podcasts “Revisiting Old Favourites” in which I read favourite essays, both my own and those of my favourite writers. This week I read my essay on “Fascism and Chesterton”.
My private correspondence with a Protestant about the history of the Reformation.
Private correspondence with a Protestant about the justification of connecting the rise of Protestantism with the Enlightenment and the rise of relativism.
The latest “Ladydale Diary” in which I write of my own life and work, at home with my family and on the road giving talks.
Please consider joining the Inner Sanctum and supporting me and my work as a donor-subscriber. Go to jpearce.co for more details.

With the world in crisis, I offer this timely warning about “overtly godless” solutions:
https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2020/03/19/god-preserve-us-from-godless-philanthropy/

My view of Peter Jackson’s adaptation of Tolkien’s magnum opus has mellowed over the years. Here’s why:
https://www.faithandculture.com/home/2020/3/20/revisiting-the-two-towers