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March 2021

March 27, 2021

In an Illuminated Cave in Crete (Happy Bicentennial Hellas!)

One Christian in Crete, in an illuminated cave, was greater than all the treasures of...

November 2020

November 30, 2020

Red Letter Day at the Bailey Building and Loan

If I have a bad day, I call my dad and say: “It is another...

June 2020

June 26, 2020

Communism, Mucha, Beauty

In one day, I saw a museum of Communism and a museum of Alphonse Mucha....

June 01, 2020

A Long Day’s Journey. . .and David Suchet

In Praise of David Suchet David Suchet is the greatest actor I have ever seen...

May 2020

May 26, 2020

“Silver and Gold, I Have?” The Prosperity Gospel Defended?

"Silver and Gold I have. . ." so said the televangelist to applause so overwhelming,...

May 04, 2020

Pandemic Tyranny: Prado, as a Poet, and Plato

Pandemic times spawn tyrants, little dictators offering security in exchange for our liberty or the...

December 2019

December 20, 2019

Star Wars IX: A Review and Philosophical Reflections

(In reviewing and discussing this film, I will try to avoid large spoilers to IX....

August 2019

August 29, 2019

Listening to the Story: Taking Time for The Bards, Becoming a Bard

“Tell us a story.” We asked Dad for a story often and he was ready....

July 2019

July 22, 2019

We Should Not Wish to Own the David (Florence should keep it.)

It is so beautiful I will not use the picture I foolishly took: The David. I...

May 2019

May 24, 2019

Upstart Crow (A Review of Sorts)

Upstart Crow made me laugh so much I began to wonder: how could any show be...

August 2018

August 27, 2018

The Better Road Not Taken (The Failures of the Seventeenth Century)

1616 came and Shakespeare and Cervantes died, but Bacon kept writing his way to a...

August 09, 2018

Just Some Moderns in Windsor: The Bowdlerization of Our Minds (Summer in the Republic 62)

The Royal Shakespeare was technically perfect, energetic, and missed the point of the play or...

July 2018

July 23, 2018

The Blush that Heals (Summer in the Republic 46)

If I can still blush in a discussion, I might still be capable of learning,...

April 2018

April 22, 2018

In Which Philip Glass Applauds My Friends While Creating Sublime Beauty

As a writer, Philip Glass is a great composer. I will try to defend this...

March 2018

March 30, 2018

Watching Three Billboards with Karen Swallow Prior (with Flannery O’Connor and Buffy the Vampire Slayer!)

Some people are so interesting that anything is better if they are there to talk...

March 27, 2018

“The Emperor Constantine,” Dorothy Sayers, and A Movie on Saint Paul

Dorothy Sayers wrote a nearly forgotten play The Emperor Constantine and reading this fine piece of...

January 2018

January 30, 2018

Jenny Lind and The Greatest Showman on Earth

If at every moment during The Greatest Showman, one forgets the actual P.T. Barnum, then the...

December 2017

December 22, 2017

Some Sentimentality

I asked Alexa for a Christmas movie and what she gave me was Christmas Town. To say...

September 2017

September 05, 2017

The Unexpected Pleasure of the Vinyl Record

I am sitting listening to Styx sing Come Sail Away on vinyl. This is not a great song. If...

August 2017

August 20, 2017

Eclipse: a Philosopher Annotates “Total Eclipse of the Heart” using Republic

Life passes and makes what once was good, a shame. My love, still difficult to...

July 2017

July 26, 2017

In Praise of the Art on Your Fridge

When a boy I wrote a very bad poem that began: “Cry for an age...

June 2017

June 26, 2017

Beauty and the Existence of God

The existence of beauty suggests that God exists and that He is good. Beauty is...

April 2017

April 27, 2017

“Staff” Can Be Beautiful Stuff, but It Does not Last

The City glistened by Lake Michigan and was so beautiful that visitors would cry when...

March 2017

March 25, 2017

Yesterday I Went to the Circus and Here is What I Learned

I am not a circus person. Fewer and fewer Americans are circus people, but I...

January 2017

January 11, 2017

Go ahead and build on the sandy land . . . sort of.

Jesus said a smart thing: 24 “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does...

December 2016

December 23, 2016

Inside information on “Rogue One” Sequel in Works: “New Hope”

There are some mild potential spoilers here for Rogue One and speculation about the sequel A New...

December 13, 2016

Diplomatic Angels

Beautiful messengers of peace: that is the role of angels and that was what our...

October 2016

October 28, 2016

Mrs. Warren’s Profession: George Shaw was a Bad Man and Shavianism a Fraud

George Bernard Shaw, a workmanlike writer who offended all the right people, had a play...

October 09, 2016

Going Forward in Beauty: Be of Good Cheer!

I am joyful just now, because this is a great moment for God's people. Too many...

January 2016

January 26, 2016

Preservation Hall: A Good Thing in America

I am already tired of politics and nobody has voted yet. Democrat and Republican: my...