Having just returned home earlier today from an overnight visit to the Heart of the Beast (Washington DC) to do some TV work (on which more later), I leave early tomorrow morning for my next week-long sojourn in New Hampshire in my capacity as Writer-in-Residence at Thomas More College.

Apart from teaching two mediaeval texts, The Song of Roland and The Song of the Cid, to my sophomore class, and Brideshead Revisited to the juniors and seniors, I’ll be giving a few talks in an extra-curricular capacity. On Sunday, I’m giving a talk on Shakespeare’s Catholicism at Christ the King parish in Concord. On Monday evening I’m giving a talk on my conversion in Portsmouth to a men’s group, and on Tuesday I’m giving another talk, also on my conversion and also in Portsmouth, to an independent Catholic high school (St. Patrick’s).

On Friday afternoon, Thomas More College President, William Fahey, will join me for a lively debate on the merits of distributism and subsidiarity, and, in the evening, staying with the theme of the Church’s social teaching, I will give a talk entitled “Big Government, Big Business, and the Catholic Church”, based on my book, Small is Still Beautiful: Economics as if Families Mattered. 

I hope that Ink Deskers from New Hampshire might be able to join me at one or other of these events.