My Commonplace Blog

The look on his face is a complete shock. I didn't understand the value and meaning of education, the hardship and stress it causes most...

'Have you never discussed philosophy with them?' 'No. We're not Germans.' J. Le Carre, The spy who came in from the c...

As for Tom, the fact that he had 'some woman in New York' was really less surprising than that he had been depressed by a book. Some...

(History repeating edition) Forza Italia!, which is suspected of Neo-Fascist leanings. My contacts in Benevento dismiss it with scorn as j...

Heresy may advertise the existence of bad theology. But it also indicates that men are thinking. G.L. Prestige, Fathers and Heretics (194...

The cause of this sedition [the run up to the massacre at Thessalonica by Theodosius' troops] is so connected with the unnatural vices o...

'They never go near the Louvre,' I said, 'or, if they do, it's only because one of their absurd reviews has suddenly "d...