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Felix James Miller

Felix James Miller is a contributing editor at The European Conservative magazine and is a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy at the Catholic University of America. He co-hosts the podcast "Truth, Beauty, Comics!" Felix lives with his wife and two sons in northern New York state. Twitter: @FelixJMiller

Felix James Miller is a contributing editor at The European Conservative magazine and is a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy at the Catholic University of America. He co-hosts the podcast “Truth, Beauty, Comics!” Felix lives with his wife and two sons in northern New York state. Twitter: @FelixJMiller

FORGOTTEN CLASSICS:
Trauma, Sin, and Providence in Kristin Lavransdatter

Reading Sigrid Undset’s trilogy challenges readers to confront their own moral vacillations and need for constancy.

FORGOTTEN CLASSICS:
Community in C.S. Lewis’ Oddest Novel

Lewis wants his readers to re-examine our presumptions about everything from modern education and science to ‘the West’ and contraception. Recognizing this can help us understand why the novel has so divided readers.

FORGOTTEN CLASSICS:
Christianity, Outer Space, and Love

Whereas much science fiction simply sidesteps the theological questions a Christian would raise on discovering rational life on other planets, C.S. Lewis asks us to wrestle with them.

FORGOTTEN CLASSICS:
The Disneyfication of Culture

Judging by the 1942 film, the story of Bambi is a relatively simple and childish tale. True, it famously deals with Bambi’s loss of his mother, but in general the movie leaves viewers with the banal, sentimental, fuzzy feelings that has made Disney an entertainment juggernaut. But these are not the feelings Salten’s original novel produces, nor is the novel particularly intended for children. How, then, did Disney’s image of Bambi become the predominant one? And how does this story and its reception shed light on our current Western culture?

FORGOTTEN CLASSICS:
Violent Myth and Christian Faith

Norse mythology, unlike the Sacred Scriptures, does not present readers with loving and merciful divinities. The Norse gods are violent boozers, many of whom seem to spend most of their time playing practical jokes and fighting giants. And yet there is a great power to the tales.

FORGOTTEN CLASSICS:
Localism, Nationalism, and Chesterton’s First Novel

How do localism and nationalism fit together? How do each of these philosophical approaches to place use and abuse the innate noble feeling of patriotism? Over the course of Chesterton’s story, we are challenged to confront these questions and answer how we ought to live.

FORGOTTEN CLASSICS:
Virtue in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park

The novel is compelling (even spellbinding at times)—and if it is called antiquated, it is only because we have forgotten that the oldest human battle is the worthiest one: the battle to achieve and maintain virtue in a fallen world.

Can Platonism Save Us?

Without the Idea of the Good, Lloyd P. Gerson argues, a person cannot argue coherently against materialism, relativism, skepticism, mechanism, and nominalism.

Ahmari & the Challenge of Tradition

Ahmari & the Challenge of Tradition

REVIEW

Ahmari & the Challenge of Tradition

When I agreed to review Sohrab Ahmari’s newest book, I wasn’t expecting to learn anything I didn’t know before. I

Felix James Miller

June 6, 2021

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