Your esteemed blogger Mr. Northcutt recently composed a short list which only someone with his erudite catholicity could have assembled. It...

More fun! Again, I think I made it moderately difficult. All answers are last names.  Click to enlarge. It's an 8.5x11 image if you wan...

– J. S. Bach. Passacaglia & Fugue in C minor, BWV.582 For most of us, there is only the unattended Moment, the moment in and out of t...

One of the many throw-away jewels in T. S. Eliot's 1961 essay To Criticize the Critic is a distinguishing between fashion and taste. Th...

Mini-Review of " The Waste Land " App for iPad Title Page (click to enlarge) No, not quite, but a new iPad app is dedicated w...

How do you capture an individual? How do you condense an essence into an expression? Not over the course of a novel or film but in as short...

Modern Education and the Classics These ten pages of excellent and admirable reflection on the ends of education are so filled full with t...

A preliminary excursion to the crossroads of individual taste, society, culture, and art. We'll look at these ideas in greater detail...

Last week at The Hannibal Blog , Andreas Kluth put the question, "Greatest thinkers: Greeks or Germans?" Of course the challenge i...

The title of the blog, Apologia pro Literati Vita , has two sources. One is Cardinal Newman's memoirs, Apologia pro Vita Sua; I merely s...