Quote of the Week: J. R. R. Tolkien, Letter to his Son Concerning Women, Courtship and Romance
“You may meet in life (as in literature) women who are flighty, or even plain wanton — I don’t refer to mere flirtatiousness, the sparring…
Romanticism
The Great Man of History and the Fallacy of Equality
Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? [Where is the Great Man?] (1 Corinthians…
Classicism: Its Theory and Practice
I. The Question Anyone possessed with a literary enthusiasm has read a poem written in the last half-century or so that made them wince with…
T. S. Eliot and Reactionary Modernism in the Early Twentieth Century
T. S. Eliot is best known as the greatest poet of the twentieth century. Less known, at least in the popular imagination, is his substantial…
Quote of the Week: W. Somerset Maugham, “The Razor’s Edge”
“It is very difficult to know people and I don’t think one can ever really know any but one’s own countrymen. For men and women…
Quote of the Week: John Kekes, “A Case for Conservatism”
“Some liberals start with a contract that rational and self-interested agents would supposedly arrive at in a hypothetical situation, and evaluate political arrangements on the…