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Thomas Banks

Thomas Banks lives in North Carolina and teaches online at the House of Humane Letters. His writing has appeared in First Things, Quadrant, the European Conservative, the New Oxford Review, the North American Anglican, and elsewhere.

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The Great Bear: A Samuel Johnson Primer

by Thomas Banks | Jun 22, 2026

The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Johnson By Robert Demaria, Jr. and Dan Hitchens Cambridge University Press, 163 pages, $49 One…

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The Man Who Pulled the Trigger, the Saint Who Changed a Kingdom

by Thomas Banks | Jun 13, 2026

The Austrian neurologist Martin Pappenheim is said to have visited and briefly interviewed Gavrilo Princip in prison during the height…

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Christianity in the Cities of Late Antiquity

by Thomas Banks | Apr 5, 2025

Rabbles, Riots and Ruins By Mike Aquilina (Ignatius Press, 206 pages, $16) I think I have by now read ten…