Magister

by | Nov 15, 2010

Last Rites by John Lukacs, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT) $25.00 hardcover, 2009 It is now twenty years since John Lukacs made his Confessions of an Original Sinner. Has time rolled ’round so soon for his Last Rites? That is the title of his second...

Looking Over Their Shoulder: Orwell and the Intellectuals

by | Nov 15, 2010

Every Intellectual’s Big Brother: George Orwell’s Literary Siblings by John Rodden, University of Texas Press (Austin, Texas) 263 pp, $45.00, 2006   The title of Every Intellectual’s Big Brother seems to suggest that there is something malign about the...

Mystery Bathed in Light

by | Nov 15, 2010

The Mind that Is Catholic. Philosophical and Political Essays, by James V. Schall, S.J. Catholic University of America Press (Washington, DC) 337 pp, $34.95, 2008 . . . but nobody thought the whole commonwealth fell with the king, or that he alone had ultimate...

Thinking in Pairs with Poets and Scientists

by | Nov 14, 2010

Robert Frost: The Poet as Philosopher by Peter J. Stanlis, ISI Books (Wilmington, Delaware) 452 pp., $28.00, 2007 Practical Mystic: Religion, Science, and A. S. Eddington by Matthew Stanley, University of Chicago Press (Chicago) 313 pp., $37.50 Cloth, 2007 There is a...