Columbus and The Spirit of Enterprise
This is the text of a little speech I gave at the New York City Yacht Club in 1992. Yes, don’t say it, a rather unusual venue for a professional trouble-maker.
Author: Thomas Fleming
Two Sonnets of José-Maria Hérédia
I don’t know how many of our readers know enough French to work through this brief poem, but for them, I shall give a few notes as well as the bald translation. If anyone knows of a good translation, I shall add it to the post.
Change Partners and Dance: Liberals and Conservatives in the New Millennium, I
In the next elections–and for succeeding elections in the foreseeable future, the propaganda campaigns of opposing candidates and parties will certainly seek to portray many of the races as a conflict between liberals and conservatives. Perhaps it would not be a waste of time to explore some of the implications.
The Revenger’s Tragedy: Plot
The play is a veritable choreography of vengeance. A negative appraiser might find the complexities tedious and contrived, but we might, by examining some of the characters, come to a more positive conclusion;
Poems by Douglas Young
Douglas Young was a classical scholar, poet, historian, and Scottish nationalist. He died in 1973 after unwisely taking up running for his health.
Book of the Month: From Tragedy to Fictional Hell
Since there are no questions or comments on Act I of The Revenger’s Tragedy, we can move on to October’s book: Descent Into Hell by Charles Williams. Williams, as I think everyone knows, was a friend of Tolkien and Lewis, and with them he helped both to vitalize Christian fiction and to lend respectability to supernatural tales.
Escape From the American Cage Fight
White bread America is gone, and if it is replaced with corn pone, tortillas, and sticky rice, there may be a little room left for scones with strawberry jam and clotted cream.
First Review of The Reign of Love
Jerry D. Salyer, a subscriber who writes in occasionally, has written a brief review published in Catholic World Report. Here is the concluding paragraphs:
Reign of Love, Chapter Two: Love and Hate
The search for a rationally perfect society always leads to tyranny. Morality and politics are rooted not in pure reason but in our attachments by love or strife to others. The Greek mystical philosopher Empedocles is a better guide than the abstract reasonings of Descartes and Kant.
