Another new epigram from George Buchanan, this time on the god Mars.
Upbuilding Discourses
“Purity of heart is to blog one thing.” -E.J. Hutchinson
Another Epigram of Buchanan: Icones 2
Another epigram from George Buchanan, newly translated.
An Epigram of George Buchanan: Icones 1 (Updated)
A new verse translation of an epigram by George Buchanan.
“The Virtues Have Gone Mad”: Chesterton on Untethered Goodness (Updated)
In which I agree with G.K. Chesterton. (Sort of.)
An Epigram
A new epigram.
On Sad Stories and Happy Endings
On death and life.
“‘Equality,’ I Spoke the Word as if a Wedding Vow”: Solzhenitsyn, Dylan, and Liberalism’s Empty Signs
One of the dangers of contemporary liberalism is that its totalitarian tendencies trade on vague sentiments and slogans--mental gestures that, even if they are not irritable (as Lionel Trilling said of conservativism), are certainly irritating, not to mention...
“To Cross His Master, Judas Comes”: Georg Fabricius, Hymns 1.6 (Updated)
Georg Fabricius’s sixth Hymn, on Judas’s betrayal of Christ.
“And Dyes the Green of Weeping Earth”: Georg Fabricius, Hymns 1.5
Georg Fabricius on Christ’s agony in the Garden of Gethsemane.
“The Hero Crossed the Brook Kidron”: Georg Fabricius, Hymns 1.4
A poem by Georg Fabricius on Christ making his way to Gethsemane.