The Ink Desk Blog

He's not just watching us, he's educating our children.... https://jpearce.co/big-brother-in-the-classroom/

The restoration of culture through the power of making beautiful things.... https://jpearce.co/craftsmanship-can-save-the-world/

What would G. K. Chesterton have thought of the public school system? What is education? What is its purpose? Here's my look at some of Chesterton's writing on education: https://jpearce.co/chesterton-and-education-2/

Here's an interview that Joseph Pearce gave to a young man in Toronto on the true heart of England.... https://jpearce.co/the-true-heart-of-england/

My experience of revisiting Mel Gibson's Passion of the Christ for the first time in many years.... https://jpearce.co/revisiting-mel-gibsons-passion-of-the-christ/

The second essay in the series putting the great works of literature "in a nutshell".... https://jpearce.co/the-odyssey-in-a-nutshell/

The Second World War is still being used as a political weapon in Europe.... https://jpearce.co/world-war-ii-revisited/

Joseph Pearce gives a summary of the new podcasts and blogposts posted this week in the Inner Sanctum of his personal website: jpearce.co https://jpearce.co/newly-posted-in-the-inner-sanctum-2/

Seventy years ago, an annual Christmas tradition began, a one-act opera in English, Gian Carlo Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors.  Less well-known is Menotti’s opera from three Decembers later, a three-act parable suitable also for Easter, The Saint of Bleecker Street.  Its plot is simple:  Annina, a young woman in New York City’s neighborhood of [...]

Looking at England's most recently canonized saint.... https://jpearce.co/the-life-and-legacy-of-john-henry-newman/