Year: 2004

I have noted before my interest in the Oxford Press series on the Seven Deadly Sins. Here is what I had to say the first time: Part of me wonders whether these ...

National Review’s blog-like The Corner has had a number of posts on the concept of “conservative literature.” Jonah Goldberg raised the issue ...

Salon has a review of the Maternal Desire: On Children Love and the Inner Life by psychologist Daphne de Marneffe. Here is a quote that is part of the tease to ...

The poetic consciousness reveals “moral insights which are the sources of human normality, and which make possible order and justice and freedom.” T...

Fascinating book review in the Atlantic by Christopher Hitchens. Hitchens is reviewing a new edition of Edmund Burke’s classic work Reflections on the Rev...

In the continuing effort to reveal just how uncool I am in literary circles, let me admit that I have yet to read a Philip Roth novel or short story. Perhaps my...