Faith, Fiction, Friends

  Glen Hansard Made Music Feel Alive  – Spencer Klavan at The Free Press.   The Antiquarian Bookshops of Old London  – Spitalfields Life.   ...

Tomorrow is Fathers Day. It’s a younger observance than Mothers Day, and it started in 1910 in Spokane, Washington. And it started because a...

Two hundred and fifty years ago, events were accelerating in Philadelphia. The drafting committee for the Declaration of Independence  was i...

I don’t select my “favorite story of the week,” but if I did, this one would be it. If you read nothing else here today, or anywhere else, r...

Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were political enemies, and often bitter ones at times. After Jefferson left the presidency in early 1809, h...

A Realist Outline of History  – Joseph Woodard at The Imaginative Conservative.  Why Read? Reading, print culture & liberal democracy  –...

Many of us grew up reciting “Listen, my children, and you shall hear, of the midnight ride of Paul Revere.” Those opening lines of the poem ...

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

King Charles III  will not issue an Easter message  this year, according to Buckingham Palace. He did, however,  issue one for Ramadan . A s...

I’m not a big hockey fan, but I cheered along with (most of) the rest of America when the USA team defeated Canada and won the gold medal in...