What is Romanticism? What do Rome and Romanticism have in common? How do they differ? Does Romanticism sometimes lead to Rome? These questions are considered in this essay of mine, just published by the National Catholic Register:

I muse upon this question in an essay in Faith & Culture:

My dire prophesies about the new Tolkien film, based upon fears arising from the agenda of the screenwriters, have proved unfounded. I’ve never been happier to be proven wrong! Here’s my “apology”:

Here’s an interview I gave recently on my role as editor of the St. Austin Review:

Admirers of both Tolkien and Chaucer will be excited to learn of the discovery of a previously unknown manuscript by the former about the latter:

I’ve scheduled five more posts that will be uploaded to the Inner Sanctum of my website (jpearce.co) this week.

The thirtieth lecture in a 45-part series of audio lectures on the works of Tolkien and Lewis.

Having stumbled upon an essay listing and describing the favourite new books that I read in 2010, I thought I’d share it with my inner-circle of friends.

I wrote this satirical essay as a way of exposing the absurdity of the modern academy, especially with respect to its abuse of Shakespeare.

In this essay I look at a couple of famous atheists who saw the light, recanting their atheism, suggesting that Richard Dawkins should take note.

The latest in my weekly diary charting daily life with the Pearce family. This week’s diary focuses on critters of various kinds, especially several close encounters of a serpentine kind.

Apart from these five new posts, which will be uploaded over the next week or so, there is now more than six months of content in the Inner Sanctum, all of which is available exclusively to those who become donor-subscribers and supporters of my work by joining my inner circle of friends. I do hope you will consider joining us.

The Catholic Herald has just published an article of mine on the influence of the saints on Shakespeare’s Muse:

There is a world of difference between arguing, which is good, and quarreling, which isn’t. Here I beg to differ with my good friend Christopher Blum in our podcast discussion on Hamlet:

https://www.faithandculture.com/home/2019/05/13-arguing-about-hamlet

Here is Tim Keller’s excellent summary of Tolkien’s philosophy of myth: