No survey of contemporary literature can call itself complete today which ignores Catholic literature. And this not only because of the promise it holds out for a complete renovation of the arts, but also because of its many distinguished writers and its not inconsiderable critical and creative work in all departments of literature. The Catholic […]
WITH spring around the corner, it may be time to cheer yourselves up with some retail therapy. TCW has scoured the internet for products that may bring some enrichment and joy to your lives . . . KhanKard: To prove to the powers-that-be that you have not had any Islamophobic thoughts, it is highly recommended […]
Modern man is an empty, soulless husk, a shadow of humanity. He looks the part, and he goes through all the motions, but he does nothing of his own volition… “Where is the place of man? The question seeks answer not merely as to the place man shares in nature with all corporeal things but […]
I NEARLY fell off my chair when I opened my copy of the Times to discover that the University of Aberdeen, one of Scotland’s top institutions for language teaching, is seriously considering taking the axe to modern languages. The rot had set in a long time ago with my own department at Dundee University. The institution had […]
One common criticism of realism is that it is merely mimicking what can now be done as well or better with a camera. This is simply not the case. With few exceptions, photographs only show the surface, not the personhood of the subject. “The Resurrection of Realism” by Igor Babailov During the time that I […]
This is the second of two essays by Lieutenant General Jonathon Riley on the lessons the modern-day world can learn from Napoleon’s successes and ultimate failure. These follow on from his review of Ridley Scott’s historically inaccurate film published on Saturday. Yesterday’s Part 1 examined strategy, past and present. Today’s focuses on the limits of power them and now. ‘IT […]
Ridley Scott’s film ‘Napoleon’ prompted us to ask military historian Jonathon Riley, author of two key books on Napoleon and a former commander of British forces in Bosnia, Sierra Leone, Iraq and Afghanistan, for a review. His damning and fascinating account of ‘the most historically inaccurate film I have ever seen’ is here. But what does an understanding of Napoleon’s successes and ultimate […]
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