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February 27, 2025

Winston Churchill Continues to Inspire

In 1930, Winston Churchill was heading into the worst part of his political career, doomed to criticize his party’s leadership on foreign affairs only to be ignored, marginalized, disdained. At the same time, he was fast approaching his greatest achievement as a writer, the biography of the ancestor who founded his family, John Churchill, Marlborough: His Life and Times, which would occupy him throughout the decade we call “the wilderness years.” Continue Reading...
February 20, 2025

Rediscover the Beauty of Weakness

It seems everyone is talking about how there just aren’t enough babies. The worldwide birth deficit has hit Western nations hard: From the U.S. to Europe, nations have slid below the 2.1 children per woman necessary to keep population stable. Continue Reading...
January 28, 2025

Reading Genesis with Marilynne Robinson

The best part of Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson is Genesis. I make this observation sincerely, intending no disparagement of Robinson’s insightful reading of the first book of the Bible. But it was a surprise and delight to pick up Reading Genesis, thumb through it for the first time, and discover that the last third of its 344 pages consists of the book of Genesis itself. Continue Reading...
January 24, 2025

The Brutalist Is Nothing Less than Brutal

Who is Brady Corbet? In the avalanche of press coverage that has accompanied the release of The Brutalist, which he co-wrote and directed, Corbet has been generally spoken of as an auteur—a filmmaker’s filmmaker, a man with unusual seriousness, ambition, and purpose. Continue Reading...