A longtime sociology professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Philip Rieff analyzed the telltale signs of a culture approaching its crisis point. Well-versed in history, literature, and…
If the reader has grown weary of waking up to the sound of the same old dusty drumbeats of contemporary politics playing the usual ideological tunes of…
O, what if we were wrong? What if the far-distant clockmaker, mechanical God, tick and tock taker, disdains efficiency, preferring song. All the pride of human wit,…
In the poem ‘Mythopoeia,’ which critics speculate is addressed to C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien makes the case for mythology as a means to understand reality: He sees…
The modern academy is in a crisis. We are splintering under the weight of a disorienting shift drawing us beyond pluralism, a welcoming of diversity, toward relativism,…
Like the fruit in the youthful Tree In the easterly garden long ago The Lord Jesus wants us to see The life-giving food He does bestow And…
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In his remarkable memoir The World of Yesterday, Austrian writer Stefan Zweig described Vienna at the end of the nineteenth century as a place of unbounded optimism…
“For the singer, words acquire a very special plenitude and depth of meaning. Something that remains silent in words merely spoken begins to flow, to vibrate; the…
Evening. Out for the usual walk. The yards are all aglow. Though, amid these patchworks of anticipation, the mind wanders along the shadows in between. In the…
