A controversy smoulders in the life of letters, of which gentle reader may be unaware. It may be detected from distant little whisps of smoke; occasionally it blazes, but far, far away. It is one of those questions to which there can be only two answers; which promise no “middle...
St Paul tells us that the Commandments are fulfilled when we love our neighbour as ourselves. As examples of the Commandments Paul mentions you shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not bear false witness and you shall not covet. But these are all negative in character,...
I Reginald, I cannot, because all I have written seems like straw in comparison with what I have seen! In these words, St Thomas Aquinas explained to his amanuensis why he could no longer continue to compose theology: in some way a new vision of Divine things had made theological writing impossible....
For some centuries now, the method of the progressives has been certainly anti-clerical, and even Averroëist; yet it is commendably mediaeval for all that. It is to identify “a problem” and then “solve” it, by making it larger. Let us say, for instance, that someone is starving. A narrow and impulsive...
People ask why I don’t write books. Not many people, but some, and those happily among my readers. The subset of these readers who are publishers is nil. It is now almost fifteen years since the last of those bothered me, with a proposal (soon after 9/11) that I write...