The Accusation: Forbidden Stories from Inside North Korea by Bandi, translated by Deborah Smith. Grove Press, 2017. Hardcover, 256 pages, $25.The title of this review is taken from Oscar Wilde’s celebrated essay carrying the same name. Writing in 1891, Wilde tries to...
James E. Person Jr. James E. Person Jr. is a writer, editor, and lecturer who has been involved with the activities of the Kirk Center since its founding in 1995. He was named a Senior Fellow in 2011. A graduate of the University of Michigan and the University of...
George H. Nash George H. Nash was born in Holyoke, Massachusetts. After graduating from South Hadley High School as valedictorian of the Class of 1963, he entered Amherst College, where he graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, in 1967. He received his...
Marco Respinti is a Milan-based journalist, essayist, translator, and lecturer. A scholar of Anglo-American conservative thought, he contributes to daily national newspapers such as Libero, Il Foglio, Cronache di liberal, Il Tempo, and l’Occidentale, Ragionpolitica,...
Gleaves Whitney Gleaves Whitney is executive director of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation, which fosters increased awareness of the life, career, values, and legacy of America’s 38th President. Gleaves was director of the Hauenstein Center for Presidential...
Smith’s claims are sobering, but they do raise important questions related to how to be religious and pass on the Christian faith in the modern age. - @PhilDavignon
We live in a world thirsty for beauty and goodness and truth. Perhaps it was always this way, and perhaps denizens of every other age felt like it was all just on the verge of slipping away. Whether this is just the normal weight of human life or not, it does feel heavy. But…