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The Young Evelyn Waugh: Tragicomic Seeker

Harrison Pitt March 23, 2022

Nobody could escape the merciless nature of Waugh’s satirical wit, but he was more than a mere humourist. Alongside his gift for comedy, he also possessed an awareness of a fateful void in the modern world.

Afterlife of an American Pulpster

Alberto M. Fernandez March 8, 2022

Howard, the writers who influenced him, and many of those that came after in the same heroic vein seem more outside the pale of literary respectability than they would have been a century ago. It is not just the artificial divide between Literature with a capital L and popular genre fiction, or the modern disdain for the writers of the past. The even greater divide is between unironically portraying heroism in the West and despising it and deconstructing it in order to bring about its demise.

Do We Really Want to Wonder?

William Gonch March 5, 2022

Mystery frightens us. Big Data offers to explain it away, thereby giving us reliable tools with which to control our lives. It is no great discovery to point out that such tools sometimes fail. Christopher Beha has done something more significant: he has asked why we want them to succeed.

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

Felix James Miller February 26, 2022

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.

Stefan Zweig, Remembering a European

David Boos February 23, 2022

Throughout his life, Stefan Zweig promoted the idea of a peaceful, united Europe but this was a call which went unheard during his lifetime. On the 80th anniversary of his suicide, his forgotten calls for peace in Europe are as urgent as ever.

A Sentimental Ode to Adolescence

Harrison Pitt February 18, 2022

If de Beauvoir’s elders can be accused of mistaking repression for virtue, then she and her intellectual peers were blind to the fact that over-indulgence is not freedom, but, instead, ranks among the most irresponsible forms of neglect.

FORGOTTEN CLASSICS:
Virtue in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park

Felix James Miller January 31, 2022

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.

The Battle of the Good and the Beautiful

Hélène de Lauzun January 29, 2022

We must know how to trust great literature, which invites the deployment of intense and demanding feelings. The elevation of the soul of the youth suffers in the absence of great literary works; they remain constricted in an elementary vision of the world, of feelings, of relationships between people.

Saviors and Savages: Herbert’s Dune and the Modern Predicament

Carlos Perona Calvete January 16, 2022

Today, we might find Dune’s imagery allegorical. The world, or the public sphere, has in many respects been rendered inhospitable. The once baroque diversity of cultural forms has been drastically reduced. A desertscape has replaced the lush filigree characteristic of more traditional societies.

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