Irony and the Meaning of Human Existence: The Wisdom of Classical Irony
“I have never done it before—stepping out of the life into the Alongside and looking at oneself living as if one were not alive. Do they all…
“I have never done it before—stepping out of the life into the Alongside and looking at oneself living as if one were not alive. Do they all…
Terrill L. Gibson. The Liminal and the Luminescent: Jungian Reflections on Ensouled Living Amid a Troubled Era. Eugene: OR, Wipf and Stock, 2021. Terrill L. Gibson’s…
It is well-known that Dante is one of the greatest poets in Western civilization. His magnum opus, The Divine Comedy, is considered one of the crowning achievements…
What does scholasticism have to say about politics today, especially the politics of Catholics who have followed the likes of Patrick Deneen to reject liberalism, or those,…
I love Haydn. If I had to be left with only one composer in my life, it would be he — not because he is the greatest,…
The story of Job is at once ancient and immediate to us. Thousands of years divide us from the primaeval setting of this story, and yet we…
Benjamin Limpscomb. The Women Are Up to Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. …
Paul T. McLaughlin and Mark R. McMinn. A Time for Wisdom. West Conshohocken, PA: Templeton Press, 2022. In his 1943 poem cycle Four Quartets, T.S. Eliot…
Ruth Gilmore Wilson, a prison abolitionist, states: “Instead of asking whether anyone should be locked up or go free, why don’t we think about why we solve…
Richard Wagner’s The Ring of the Nibelung is a masterpiece of modern art and is perhaps the greatest triumph of the artistic spirit since 1800. J.R.R. Tolkien’s…
Paul Heise. The Wound That Will Never Heal: An Allegorical Interpretation of Richard Wagner’s The Ring of the Nibelung. Washington DC: Academica Press, 2021. Richard Wagner…
The Ring of the Nibelung, Wagner’s great cycle of operas exploring the origin of consciousness and the birth of the human world begins in the depths of the river…
One of the privileges of writing this column is that I occasionally get to meet the composers of the music I review. I had a meeting this…
Every person has been nourished by particular linguistic and cultural traditions, shaped by living in definite locales, and feels most at home in a specific social milieu…
The disappearance of the bourgeoisie has led to a crisis in the arts. How can we track down the defeated remnants of the philistine class, in order to…