Category: Books & Culture
Irish poet Nobel winner Seamus Heaney dies at 74
By SHAWN POGATCHNIK
DUBLIN – Seamus Heaney, Ireland’s foremost poet who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995, died Friday after a half-century exploring the wild beauty of Ireland…
Strauss Vs Nietzsche: The Problem of Christianity Within Modernity
There has been a tradition of scholarship on Leo Strauss that has emphasized his philosophical kinship with Nietzsche. some have used this comparison as means to criticize Strauss’ project as…
Review Of Rod Dreher’s The Little Way Of Ruthie Leming
Rod Dreher, by his own admission in “The Little Way of Ruthie Leming,” was a geeky bookworm who never quite fit in his small Louisiana hometown. His younger sister, Ruthie,…
Is Twitter Making Us Dumber?
“The Machine,” they exclaimed, “feeds us and clothes us and houses us; through it we speak to one another, through it we see one another, in it we have our…
De Gaulle’s Greatness
Once, when asked for his opinion of Charles de Gaulle, Winston Churchill mused: “If I regard de Gaulle as a great man? He is selfish, he is arrogant, he believes…
The Poetry Of Modern Faith
When did the spiritual life become just another trapping of “lifestyle”—an urgency not at the heart of the good life but of la dolce vita? As one telling example, the…
The Limits Of Madison’s Remonstrance
The stridency of the Obama administration’s secularism has led advocates of religious pluralism and the fully-clothed public square back to the Founders’ well to reproduce and rearticulate our vital heritage…
Saul Bellow’s Son Opens Up
Saul Bellow’s Heart: A Son’s Memoir, by Greg Bellow, Bloomsbury, RRP £20/$26, 240 pages
“Was I a man or a jerk?” Saul Bellow asked a friend shortly before his death.…
The Perils Of Reading In China
Information wants to be free, so the saying goes, and in China’s repressive media environment, millions still manage to circumvent government censorship to access sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and…
Can America Forgive Tiger?
In late March, he won at Bay Hill, Arnold Palmer’s course. Two weeks before that, he won at Doral, Donald Trump’s course. After these victories, Tiger Woods would take two…
