Flashes of fulfilling its potential. Today I’d like to jump on the popular topic, only a few weeks late (probably), because that’s my usual course of action. Daily Wire, with whom I have no contentions at all, has put out
How do we respond to modernity? Probably my favorite Chesterton novel is the hilarious and pointed The Flying Inn, a book replete with doggerel, bits of poetry strung together by the characters as they run amuck through England, bearing the
Stories are not intellectual didactism. “Too often critics… have treated the Chronicles [of Narnia] as if they were principally works of propaganda and have exchanged their poetry for a pot of message,” write Michael Ward on page 22 of Planet
The PCA’s interesting vocabulary. When I read the PCA’s interim report, one word struck me almost physically: “reactionary.” The term arrives in the midst of Point 11 of their ‘Affirmations and Denials’ (pg 11), wherein the report’s authors allow that
Shaping an effective, motivated minority. Let’s return to a concept in Dr. Gilfedder’s article in Islander VI: the need for a substantial class of cultural thought-shapers (character-lights), in light of the divisiveness of the developing ‘right wing’ intelligentsia-elite. On the
Stories are conveyances and expressions of worldview. The final article in Islander VI, by Alexander Adams, presents a sets of theses in synthesis. First, that the worthwhile battlefield is in the cultural (including the artistic) sphere, rather than the political.
There is no political solution. Dr. Gilfedder’s article in Islander VI follows the pattern of all the best parts of the magazine: penetrating insight and worthwhile thought which stops a crucial step short of the mark. His thesis in this
We shall, today, start at the end, taking for our introduction very nearly the final line of Ferro’s article in Islander VI, a quote from Ruskin: “Taste is not only a part and an index of morality; it is the
The tragedy of the commons, yes, but is the government our only hope? Alex Masters’ article in Islander VI has good points and bad points; a more exhaustive discussion of both you’ll have to wait for, as it’ll be up
Bureaucracy does not work nearly as well. Islander VI’s article “Brotherhoods” by Stephen Carson is well worth the read, short as it may be compared to some of its companions. In it, Carson lays out the pitch for ‘mutual aid