It’s taken a long time, but there’s been quite a shift in the face of the traditional Not In My Back Yard or NIMBY as they’re affectionately known. Decades ago, the acronym was used almost exclusively to describe the upper-middle-class and wealthy Americans who would come pouring out of hilltop, island, or gated communities to […]
Our students read the greatest books of the tradition, a challenge to the brightest minds, and risk themselves repeatedly in conversation, until those who are seasoned “invariably deem it a special privilege to be in the front,” as General William Tecumseh Sherman said of veteran soldiers. Years ago, when my wife and I taught at […]
People who read books of this kind usually expect the author to answer the question: “Why did you become a Roman Catholic?” I am not trying to explain it, but I must try to illustrate it by an example. It was as if I had been a man homeless and needing shelter, who first of […]
This is the last our series of articles by the much-loved TCW writer Nick Booth, who died in September. It was first published on August 29, 2023. You can read Kathy’s introduction here. I’M expecting some mortifying news about my cancer. Minotaura, the NHS administrator with this vital intelligence, has other ideas. Reports of my […]
A stunt designed to celebrate the coming of Christmas turned deadly, according to reports from the Russian community of Chelyabinsk. A man wearing a red robe to appear to be Grandfather Frost — a Russian version of Santa Claus — fell to his death from a 24-story residential building, according to the New York Post. […]
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