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by | May 18, 2024

“I have a theory, and the theory is mine,” says the pompous twit on the old Monty Python show, “which…

by | Apr 13, 2024

Nearly 60 years ago, the renowned prose stylist and infamous Catholic convert Evelyn Waugh passed away. On Easter Sunday (April…

by | Mar 4, 2024

In some sense, writing is guesswork. You put words on a page and hope people like them — generally, some…

by | Feb 13, 2024

When I was a boy riding the bus to our diocesan high school, an older kid sometimes sat in the…

by | Feb 10, 2024

How far Lord Minamoto no Muneyuki had fallen. His grandfather was the former Emperor Kōkō, and his father the Imperial…

by | Dec 17, 2023

     In my last article, I described what I called ignorance to the third degree: ignorance that is proud of itself,…

by | Dec 17, 2023

On August 12, 2022, a 24-year-old California-born Islamist named Hadi Matar rushed the stage of the Chautauqua Institution in upstate…

by | Nov 26, 2023

When Philip Roth died in 2018 at age 85, all eyes turned to Blake Bailey, his appointed biographer who’d been…

by | Sep 22, 2023

Hunter S. Thompson was necessary for the rest of us to be able to do whatever we want in our…

by | Sep 15, 2023

A Catholic and a Protestant walk into a podcast booth. On a blustery Midwestern day, hosts Aubrey Gulick and Luther…

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