Sample Content from Our Latest Issue Table of Contents Sample Article Solzhenitsyn’s History of Russia In The Red Wheel, a novelistic history of the Russian Revolution, the fictional Colonel Georgi Vorotyntsev speaks for Solzhenitsyn or, better put, is Solzhenitsyn. We know this because “in childhood he had been obsessed with Russia’s history and felt a premonition [...]
Sample Content from Our Latest Issue Table of Contents Sample Article The Quixotic Catholic Hailed by many as both the first and the greatest novel ever written, the immortal adventures of the very mortal Knight of La Mancha are so indomitable and unique that they earned and engendered their own adjective. But the quixotic is not [...]
Sample Content from Our Latest Issue Table of Contents Sample Article Meeting Socrates: Educating Modern Philosophers Have any of you faithful readers of Peter Kreeft’s many, many books ever wondered what it would be like to attend his philosophy course at Boston College? Save yourself ninety grand in freshman fees, and cough up instead a hundred [...]
Sample Content from Our Latest Issue Table of Contents Sample Article The Desert’s Ancient Peace: Christendom from Homer to Eliot If there were water And no rock If there were rock And also water And water A spring A pool among the rock If there were the sound of water only Not the cicada And [...]
Sample Content from Our Latest Issue Table of Contents Sample Article Who Are the Celts? The Celts: A Modern History by Ian Stewart (Princeton University Press) is not, despite what the title might suggest, a history, modern or otherwise, of the Celts. It is instead a history of the idea of “the Celts”, which is [...]
Why did a writer who defended so many deeply Catholic ideas stop just short of becoming Catholic—and what can that tell us about faith, history, and influence? Why Didn't C.S. Lewis Become Catholic? - Joseph Pearce
History and literature are full of femmes formidables who shine forth feminine faith and fortitude... Feminine Faith and Fortitude - Joseph Pearce
Beauty is alive. It is alive with the living presence of the living God. It is God’s grandeur shining forth His Presence in creation and creativity... The Resurrection of Beauty - Joseph Pearce
Why are the English as "revolting" as the French and Germans? Revolting England - Joseph Pearce
Is the artist the only parent of his artistic creation? Is a Work of Art a Child? - Joseph Pearce
What's the relationship between an author and his Muse? Can a Great Work of Literature Be Wiser Than Its Author? - Joseph Pearce
Wast Tolkien influenced by Chesterton in his judgment of England's failings? Tolkien, Chesterton and the Sloth of England - Joseph Pearce
The Troubadours reveal the hidden secrets of the strangest books that they own…. Watch this month’s Troubadours and discover the secrets hidden on the shelves of the Troubadours’ personal libraries. There’s the guide to Rome that got lost in Rome, a book that escaped from prison, another bloodstained after a night of violence, yet another that [...]
Famous fictional saints tell us truths we need to hear... Finding Truth in Fictional Saints - Joseph Pearce
The scandalous truth about Shakespeare's London home... The Secret of Shakespeare's London House - Joseph Pearce