"From the Chinese point of view, the man who is wisely idle is the most cultured man. For there seems to be a philosophic contradiction...

"To live within a just order is to live within a pattern that has beauty. The individual finds purpose within an order, and security - ...

The 2009-10 season at the Metropolitan Opera promises great things. After a hiatus, the Met is again performing a German-language version of...

The next two weeks in the liturgical calendar contain feasts common both to East and West: the Nativity of the Virgin Mary on the 8th and th...

"It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say he is one who never inflicts pain. This description is both refined and, as far as it...

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...

I'm a devoted reader of the English conservative philosopher and writer, Roger Scruton. England: An Elegy was his first book I encounte...

One of the prouder moments of my brief and ignominious teaching career was a lecture I gave on Penelope: it was given entirely ex tempore an...

"The mutilation of the operatic state has been one of the most significant triumphs of the 'culture of repudiation': the cultur...