Southern Literary Figure Hated Confederate Statues
Will Percy was not a BLM advocate, much less an Antifa subversive. He was “the embodiment of Southern culture, ‘defender of traditions, poet, gracious host.’”
Category: Holidays
Merry Christmas
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” —Charles Dickens
Christmas Eve with GKC
In the round of our rational and mournful year one festival remains out of all those ancient gaieties that once covered the whole earth. Christmas remains to remind us …
GKC on Waugh
Evelyn Waugh liked to send out satirical Christmas cards . . .
Drinking with Children
The very first Christmas card showed a young child drinking mulled wine. It was 1843, the year Dickens’ Christmas Carol came out.
Everlasting GKC for Advent
Any agnostic or atheist whose childhood has known a real Christmas has ever afterwards, whether he likes it or not, an association in his mind between two ideas that …
Rage Against the Machine
“I am propelled along by my activities, for I am merely a cog in their great machinery.”
How to Pay for Thanksgiving Dinner
The price of turkeys is up about 12% from last year. Vegetables and breads are up 7%ish.
Annual Thanksgiving Day Quotes
“If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, “thank you,” that would suffice.” Meister Eckhart
Black Wednesday Arriveth
I was going to play my Spotify "Garage Rock Elite" playlist, but it promises to be a more laid-back affair, so I might go with my "Mellow" list. We'll …
Ten Catholic Drinking Costumes Guaranteed to Impress
If you have costume parties to attend, and you want to embrace your Catholicism, and you want to embrace the (drinking) weekend, I have ten great ideas.
Russell Kirk: The Anti-Modernist Cerberus
The author of The Conservative Mind opposed modernity in at least three ways