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Ladydale Diary
THE END OF CIVILIZATION
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Does Pride Poison Art?
Is good art the product of a virtuous or baptized imagination and is art poisoned by pride? I tackle these questions in an essay published in the Catholic Herald:
https://catholicherald.co.uk/magazine/pride-is-the-enemy-of-great-art/
The Classical Muse
What is the classical muse and, more to the point, what isn’t it? Here are my musings on these questions:
https://www.faithandculture.com/home/2019/7/3/the-classical-muse
ON PATRIOTISM AND NATIONALISM
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Was Shakespeare a Racist?
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Ladydale Diary
This morning, as I gave our son Leo his breakfast, I pulled down the statue of St. Elizabeth of Portugal and placed her in a prominent place in the kitchen in honour of her feast day. She’s a favourite of mine, a queen who has something of the fairytale princess about her (not of the Disney variety!). I bought the statue several years ago during a visit to Lisbon to give some talks.
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Tolkien and Lewis Lecture Week 36
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The English Resistance
The National Catholic Register has just published my tribute to the English Catholic Resistance to the tyranny and terror of the Tudors:
http://www.ncregister.com/blog/josephpearce/recusants-and-martyrs-who-resisted-englands-tudor-terror
Reasons to be Cheerful
Are things as bad as they seem, or is there cause for hope and joy in our darkening world?
https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2019/07/reasons-be-cheerful-joseph-pearce.html