Thoughts from Home and Abroad

Fairy stories have the power to take us further up and further into reality... https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RhXk6i6xCek

Which classic works of American literature should be included on a good Catholic classical high school curriculum? https://memoriacollege.org/classical-education-and-american-literature/

The path to authentic manhood versus the toxic masculinity of machismo and the feminized emasculation of "woke" weakness... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNz8Q20zeNk

Which is the one work to rule them all? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zs0Iu_unhXE

Dante is arguably the greatest poet who has ever lived and The Divine Comedy is his great poem. It is, however, a challenge to read. How should readers approach the challenge? https://rumble.com/v70ofxi-in-a-nutshell-with-joseph-pearce-31-why-read-the-divne-comedy.html

Almost ninety years after Chesterton's death a new "autobiography" has been published... https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2025/10/dale-ahlquist-i-also-had-my-hour-gk-chesterton-joseph-pearce.html

Fr. Fessio, Vivian Dudro, and Joseph Pearce proceed to chapter three of Ida Friederike Görres’s book John Henry Newman: A Life Sacrificed. They comment on Ida’s claim that St. John Henry Newman’s life is a tragedy. They point out that despite his seemingly comfortable life, he struggled at times with nervous breakdowns and had to [...]

What's the difference between an education in the Great Books and an education in the Great Conversation? https://memoriacollege.org/great-books-versus-the-great-conversation/

In the deadliest century of human history, these women heroically stood for life... https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/women-warriors-for-life

I had to share this photograph, sent to me from Australia, of a mother (Hannah) reading from my book Poems Every Child Should Know to her daughter (Florence)...