Yearly Archive: 2025
Charlie Kirk, may he rest in peace
Many people on the right are saying that the murder of Charlie Kirk marks the beginning of a Civil War. They are wrong on two counts.
Studying War
I promised to serialize parts or all of the last chapter of the sequel to The Reign of Love. This chapter deals with the ethics of war. The photograph was taken about two weeks ago in Billings Park, Superior, Wisconsin, a half mile from where I lived as a child.
Wednesday’s Child: Letter from Venice
My son Nikolai, the grownup one, reports from Venice, where he lives on one of the islands, describing a visit to an exhibition at the Procuratie Vecchie in Piazza San Marco.
Booth Tarkington, Great American Novelist
This is a revised and amplified version of some old writings that go back ultimately to a talk I gave at our second Second Summer School. On a personal note, I first read Tarkington, so I recall, at the age of eleven or twelve
Wednesday’s Child: A Word of Advice
I’m often asked if I ever feel nostalgic about the old country, and the answer is that I do when some outlandish saying crosses my mind.
Greek I.xxii: Πᾶς PLUS Vocabulary and Translation Audio
An easy lesson with only the word Πᾶς to memorize.
