josephpearce

Please consider supporting me and my work by becoming a subscriber to the Inner Sanctum of my personal website: jpearce.co.New this week and exclusive to Inner Sanctum members:My discussion and reading of Wordsworth's anti-secularist poem, "Ode to Duty".The latest instalment of our pilgrimage to Rome with Hilaire Belloc.My discussion of Homer's theology. To what extent can Homer's [...]

What have faith and fairy stories to do with the real world? Are the truths to be found in fairy stories more real and practical than the sneer of the cynic or the promises of the politician? These questions are addressed in this essay of mine, just published by the National Catholic Register, in which I [...]

There's something creepily Orwellian about the United Nations and those who advocate giving it more power:https://jpearce.co/doctor-who-and-big-brother/

Here's the link to my appearance on Catholic radio this evening to discuss what we can learn from Tolkien about today's dark times:https://jpearce.co/are-we-becoming-a-nation-of-gollums-2/

I have contributed a chapter to an excellent new book exploring Solzhenitsyn's place in the canon of the West. I encourage all lovers of Western Civilization to obtain a copy as soon as it's available. Here are the details:https://jpearce.co/solzhenitsyn-and-american-culture/

Here's my interview with Robert R. Reilly, author of America on Trial: A Defense of the Founding:https://jpearce.co/defending-americas-rule-of-reason/

In recent essays I've followed C. S. Lewis to hell, purgatory and heaven. Now I'm going to purgatory in the company of J..R.R. Tolkien:https://jpearce.co/going-to-purgatory-with-j-r-r-tolkien/

I am honoured to be the host of the first-ever Radio Shakespeare Festival this Labor Day weekend. I hope you can join me for an audio feast of twelve of Shakespeare's plays, each of which I introduce with some observations about their deeper meaning. Here are the details:https://jpearce.co/the-worlds-first-radio-shakespeare-festival/