Faith, Fiction, Friends

Wendell Berry’s Affections   – Gary Houchens at The Imaginative Conservative.   Wendell Berry (1934-2026)  – Jeffrey Bilbro at Front Porch R...

The Joy of Baseball – Daniel Darling at One Little Word.  Know your rights as an author and don’t get scammed  – Nathan Bransford.   Submerg...

Great Americans: ‘We’re Going to Take Back the Airplane’  – Colleen Shogan at The Free Press.   There Are More than Five POVs  – Lincoln Mic...

Language matters: On the media’s anti-American animus  – The New Criterion.   Churchill and the Debt Battle That Made America a Superpower  ...

On Judging Books – Matt Reynolds at Mere Orthodoxy.  Waking Up Chancellorsville  – Chris Mackowski at Emerging Civil War.   Canada wants to ...

The Nobody Inn and Radical and Dissenting Newington Green – A London Inheritance.  Warch Pakistan Closely: The Other Front in the Iran Crisi...

Love Along the Raid: A Morgan’s Raiders Love Story – Caroline Davis at Emerging Civil War.  Old Tom’s Ash Wednesday  – Bradley Birzer.   T.S...

    The Beauty Around Me  – Brian Miller at Notes from an East Tennessee Farmer.   The Forgotten Battle of Menotomy  – Michael Ruderman at  ...

Things Worth Remembering: America is an Invention  – Dominic Green at The Free Press.  Wokeness as a Tax on Human Nature  – Samuel D. James ...

Britain: Multiculturalism contra justice  – Sam Bidwell at The Critic Magazine.  Shrouded Veterans: Destitute Cavalryman Plagiarizes Mark Tw...

I really didn’t think politicians were giving substantive speeches of ideas anymore, the kind with thesis statements, the marshaling of evi...

The Most Valuable Class I Ever Had – Chris Martin at FYI. The Nazis Did Not ‘Weaponize’ Free Speech. They Crushed It  – Andrew Roberts at Th...

The speech Vice President J.D. Vance  gave at the Munich Security Conference  last week continues to reverberate. I don’t think I can recall...

How Novels Carried Me Through Suffering  – Lara D’Entremont at A Faithful Imagination. Gustav Klimt – Painting the Land  – George Bothamley ...

When I was young child, I asked my father what the package was that sat on a shelf in his closet. It was wrapped in brown grocery bag paper ...

Why Literature Still Matters  – Louis Markos at The Imaginative Conservative.   Horrific Price: The Unlimited Courage of Apollo 1  – Jason C...

The Winter 2025 edition of Cultivating Oaks Press is now online, and  the theme of this issue is kindness . You can read a number of essays ...

Papa’s Century  – David Warren at Essays in Idleness.  “The Sensation of Seeing”: How T.S. Eliot Defamiliarizes the Christmas Story  – Carte...

Thou shalt not pray? – Lois McLatchie at The Critic Magazine.  What Salman Rushdie Doesn’t Want to Talk About  – Douglas Murray at The Free ...

Massacre at St. Louis: The Road to the Camp Jackson Affair and Civil War  by Kenneth Burchett   - review at Civil War Books and Authors.  Wh...