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Historians tend to have fun in ways unlike most other people, so a game using a map and set in the past ought to be just what any historian would be after. Diplomacy, a board game commercially introduced in 1959 by Allan Calhamer, harkens back to the era of the First World War and forgoes a [...]
Several years ago, when I was still teaching Freshman English at a local university, I wrote a post about the coming death of sex. I reported that I’d held a class discussion on the subject, and more or less polled my students. On the basis of that discussion, I concluded that sex was dying. There were [...]
How did Elizabeth, the so-called "Virgin Queen", meet her doom? Did she have a happy death, or did she die in misery? All is revealed in my latest essay for the Imaginative Conservative: https://jpearce.co/the-final-days-of-bloody-bess/
Nowhere is the devastation of betrayal depicted more clearly than in Henry James’ Washington Square. Set in 1840s New York, it is the story of the daughter of a widowed physician who feels burdened by the plain and dull daughter of his brilliant and beautiful wife. Catherine is completely unaware of her father’s disappointment in her. She adores [...]
November/December Issue - The Pilgrim Fathers: 400 Years On Sample Content from Our Latest Issue November/December Table of Contents Sample Article Emily Dickinson’s Catholic Sensibility — Jim Curtis Emily Dickinson is America’s most enigmatic literary genius. The outpouring of novels (William Nicholson’s Amherst; Jerome Charyn’s The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson) and movies (A Quiet Passion; [...]
Not long ago I spent an hour reading a handful of St. Augustine’s festal homilies in praise of the early martyrs. The three dedicated to Ss. Felicity and Perpetua especially stand out as worthy of their subjects, and several passages from these have remained with me over the past few days. I suspect this may mean [...]
The year 1943 saw the publication of two American books about liberty. Both books sold well at the time and are still in print, and two books could not be more different. Both The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand, and Johnny Tremain, by Esther Forbes, are novels describing struggles for freedom. Only one reflects a moral compass [...]
In the New Oxford Review headlines today, Pope Francis is reported to have said that money is the “new idolatry”. I couldn’t help thinking what was new about that. Preachers of all sorts have said that ever since I can remember. “You cannot serve both God and mammon” is a Scripture we all must have heard [...]