
Reading for Permanence: Books Worth Inheriting
Europe suffers from amnesia: she has forgotten the texts that helped her understand fate, order, transcendence, and herself.

Europe suffers from amnesia: she has forgotten the texts that helped her understand fate, order, transcendence, and herself.

Living a life of mercy means encountering the ‘least of these’ in all of their particularity—and recognizing them in ourselves, too.

Catholic publishers should produce editions that can be treasured for generations.

Familiarity with the artistic canon is essential for those who would create it.

There is something uncanny about the evident humanness of an old artifact—and something comforting as well.

Some members of faculty have denounced the plans as “sinister.”

The Ontario Department of Education recently directed schools to ensure library books are ‘inclusive.’

The new edition published by Ian Fleming’s estate features the spook denouncing Orbán’s government and populism while combating an eccentric right-wing aristocrat trying to seize the British throne.

Never in human history has it been easier and cheaper to amass an enormous personal library of the greatest literature produced by our civilization (and others)—and never, perhaps, has it been more important to do so.

We are marked from the day of our birth with an end date; all is indeed vanity. To forget our mortality is thus to lose something human, to become inhuman.