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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 [...]