Blog: The Ink Desk

  Do things that go bump in the night have to obey the laws of reason? Wraiths and Reason - Joseph Pearce

A controversial discussion for Thanksgiving... Should We Give Thanks for Technology? - Joseph Pearce

Joseph Pearce offers a sneak preview of what's newly posted to the Inner Sanctum at jpearce.co... New and Exclusive from Joseph Pearce - Joseph Pearce

What does G. K. Chesterton describe as being the democracy of the dead and why? The Democracy of the Dead - Joseph Pearce

Finding beauty, sanity and sanctity in the ugliness of suffering with Flannery O'Connor... The Sanity and Suffering of Flannery O'Connor - Joseph Pearce

In 1949, Duff Cooper published Sergeant Shakespeare, about the so-called lost years of William Shakespeare. From 1585 to 1592, there is a gap in the record of Shakespeare’s life, and much speculation has gone into filling that gap. More recent efforts have included two entertaining novels by Benet Brandreth, The Spy of Venice and The Assassin [...]

I feel compelled to beg your pardon as you enter into this post, like a Hobbit unprepared to feed a troupe of dwarves that have just come upon him unannounced, that this post will not have the footnotes and citations to qualify for a Tolkien scholarly article. But that doesn’t bother you, right? You were looking [...]

Paying tribute to the indomitable Father Joseph Fessio... Portrait of a Noble Jesuit - Joseph Pearce

Joseph Pearce is teaching online courses on Antony & Cleopatra and King Lear in the New Year. Here are the details: Two New Online Shakespeare Courses - Joseph Pearce

Celebrating priests who evangelized the wild west... Pioneering Priests - Joseph Pearce