Cutting Homer Down to Size: Nolan’s Odyssey
Sir Christopher Nolan violates the sacred world order of Homer to tell a story about Odysseus violating the moral order of Nolan’s world. Odysseus, and the rest…
God in the Secular World
The long march to secularity has been one of the most widely discussed and debated topics in both the popular imagination and academic discourse. While a major…
A Darkly Beautiful, Almost Epic Masterpiece of The Odyssey
“Cleverness will get you in trouble.” When teaching Homer’s Odyssey, students will often ask questions about the unexpected character of Odysseus, the hero of the epic. They…
What Makes us Human: Human-Animal Interaction in Gulliver’s Travels and Elsewhere
One well-known theme in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, first published three hundred years ago this year, is the relation or relations between human beings and “beasts,” or…
The Forest
We found a fallen path in failing light Twilight deepening to a fragile night And searching saw the ash, well grown As wandered long amidst the ancient…
Baseball as Covenant: Kendall’s Enduring Symbols of Ordered Self-Government
Willmoore Kendall’s intellectual trajectory presents a fascinating interplay between play, virtue, and political order, tracing a remarkable continuity from his adolescent reflections on baseball to his mature…
The Hollowing of Democracy: A Review of Camil Roman’s “The French Revolution and Its Legacy”
Representative democracy suffers from an inbuilt tension. On the one hand, the democratic ideal is rule ‘of the people, by the people, for the people’ as Lincoln…
Many Not One
There’s an old Jewish joke. Half a congregation believes tradition requires them to sit during one prayer. The other half believes tradition requires them to stand. The…
Reclaiming Nietzsche as a Catalyst for Renewing the Western Tradition
Europe is decidedly the epicenter of magisterial cultural brilliance. It is the continent that has bequeathed upon the world the most evocative of paintings, superlatively invigorating music…
The Back Fence, 4 PM
The shadow of the feeder dangles slant from today’s gold dwindling scaffold. Winged jots record, on radiant boards, birds fanning and declining to the feeder. Smoke suspended…
The Collapse of Judah: The Institutional Disorder as the Disorder of Being
Deuteronomic Reform: An Attempt at Institutional Restoration Political instability, intensified by Manasseh's failed syncretic project and Assyrian domination, plagued Judah and drained its energies, generating social disorder…
The Promise of Waiting: Spiritual Maturation in The Sycomore Fig Tree
Nature is an active participant in Christine Norvell’s new work, The Sycomore Fig Tree: Biblical Botany and Scriptural Truth. The book opens by discussing the literary and…
The Declaration of Independence
On July 4, the celebration of the independence of the United States of America, let us spend time with the great document that inspired the world and…
Soul Politics: Eric Voegelin and VoegelinView
“The German Revolution, finally, in an environment without strong institutional traditions, brought for the first time into play full economic materialism, racist biology, corrupt psychology, scientism, and…
CPR Training
The nurse had hair the color of a healing bruise and arms hard from pressing plastic breastbones. On real people, when you do this, you should hear…