Jane Austen 8

One cannot really have a book about conversation alone. Conversation is so much a fruit of individual persons and their relationship to one another, that a book about that fruit…

Valetudinarianism connects arguments about the pandemic and the climate, with, on the one side, a distrust of experts and politicians, and, on the other, the belief that science (however defined)…

The enduring value of adding Jane Austen to my disciplines was not beholden to my expectation of enjoyment from a happy wedding nor was it dependent on my recognition that…

Both Prior and Gibbs agree that ultimately virtue orients us toward one end, to “love God and enjoy Him forever.” Loving God is difficult; it too requires our attention in…

The invaluable works of our elder writers, I had almost said the works of Shakespeare and Milton, are driven into neglect.

Even in a democratic age, where social classes are fluid and poorly demarcated, the gentleman is characterized by these five attributes.

If we are witnessing the passing of the gentlemen, there is much to lament. Perhaps it’s time for the gentleman to make a comeback.

Austen provides something for which young people—even the jaded ones—secretly long.