On November 4, 1932, the Friday before the national election that would send Franklin Delano Roosevelt to the White House, T.S. Eliot spoke for the first time as the Norton lecturer at Harvard University. Continue Reading...
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December 17, 2024
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever: New Christmas Classic?
For at least 20 years, Christian leaders have made the same argument: Culture is shaped by movies; movies are secular and immoral; therefore, making Christian movies will move culture toward Christ. Continue Reading...
December 16, 2024
Lee Edwards: A Conservative for All Seasons
Dr. Lee Edwards, historian of the American conservative movement and self-professed “admirer of the Acton Institute and its important work,” passed away last week at the age of 92.
Edwards was more than a scholar of the conservative movement: He was a pivotal person in it. Continue Reading...
December 13, 2024
Recovering Islam and Judaism’s Shared Golden Age
“When I say we have no greater friends than Christian supporters of Israel, I know you’ve always stood with us,” declared Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to an evangelical audience in Washington, D.C., Continue Reading...
December 12, 2024
The Jerusalem Passage: A Sci-Fi Pilgrimage
The Hospitaller priest gave a blessing, then turned to the deacon who said, “The Mass is ended.
Let us go there now and die with Him.”
Such are the words that mark the beginning of Janusz’s pilgrimage. Continue Reading...
December 11, 2024
Treating Family like Royalty
Many years ago, an acquaintance of my wife’s and mine married a Habsburg. She was not of noble stock—just a good ol’ American girl whose beauty piqued the interest of a European archduke during a visit to the states. Continue Reading...
December 10, 2024
The Life and Death of Alexei Navalny
On February 16, 2024, Alexei Navalny died under mysterious circumstances in the remote Siberian penal colony to which he was moved in late 2023. Founder and leader of the Anti- Corruption Foundation, Navalny was a long-time dissident and one of the most vocal critics of Putin’s regime over the past two decades, so his suspicious death was no surprise to anyone remotely acquainted with contemporary Russian politics. Continue Reading...
December 06, 2024
Archbishop’s Resignation Exposes Church of England Fault Lines
The resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, following the damning Makin Report into the heinous crimes of serial abuser John Smyth, whose severe beatings of students from as far back as the 1980s, exposes problems within the Church of England that point to long-standing doctrinal, disciplinary, and cultural issues that will both determine who takes his place and how the church has come to this sorry pass. Continue Reading...
December 05, 2024
Surely Jim Abrahams, Film-Comedy Genius, Rests in Peace
Just before Thanksgiving, writer-director Jim Abrahams died at the age of 80. He was the A in ZAZ—the most prolific comedic team of the 1980s, the Zs being his school friends, the Zucker brothers, David and Jerry. Continue Reading...
December 04, 2024
A Good Troublemaker: Jimmy Lai’s Story of Hardship and Heroism
“For them, I am a troublemaker. It is hard for them not to clamp down on me and silence me.” On August 10, 2020, Jimmy Lai, entrepreneur and media mogul, was arrested in the wake of the crackdown on the pro-democracy protests that engulfed Hong Kong. Continue Reading...
