“We see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face.” — 1 Corinthians 13:12 The death of Evelyn Foster has become one of those crimes whose unsolved nature is almost more essential than its facts. In the bleak January of 1931, a young woman, independent enough to drive her own car for hire, was discovered … Continue reading Ash and Smoke at Wolf’s Nick: Evelyn Foster Between Fact and Fire
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The Repudiators and the Inheritance of the West
“A culture of repudiation has taken hold among our elites, who will celebrate every culture but their own, and who see in the inheritance of the West not an achievement to be cherished but a crime to be atoned for.” - Sir Roger Scruton There’s something eerily biblical about Scruton’s lament. I think of the … Continue reading The Repudiators and the Inheritance of the West
The Fires That Cleanse: On Purgatory, Scripture, and the Uneasy Middle
On the back of a rotten dream and a few following unsettled nights, I dragged just about every scriptural reference book I own out, blew off the dust, and began scratching out the following. It’s heavy but it’s worth the toil. I think. The Catholic doctrine of Purgatory has always been a scandal to the … Continue reading The Fires That Cleanse: On Purgatory, Scripture, and the Uneasy Middle
The Petty Jealousy of a Pretender: George R. R. Martin vs. Tolkien
I recently stumbled across a post taking shots at Tolkien, quoting George R. R. Martin’s usual grumblings about The Lord of the Rings - no tax policies for Aragorn, evil vanquished too ‘neatly’ when the Ring was destroyed, destiny over realism, and so on. The more I read, the more it irritated me. Tolkien wasn’t … Continue reading The Petty Jealousy of a Pretender: George R. R. Martin vs. Tolkien
The Great Grift of the Double Income
We’re told, in the dulcet tones of history textbooks and corporate diversity videos, that the ‘double income household’ was the great liberation. Women marched out of the kitchen, men learned how to boil an egg, and all was well with the world. Cue a slow-motion montage of shoulder-padded power suits, briefcases clacking like castanets, and … Continue reading The Great Grift of the Double Income
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