Thoughts from Home and Abroad

Here are the details of a six-week live course that I'm teaching this summer on The Lord of the Rings... https://caravel.homeschoolconnections.com/catalog/1485877849

Was the grandson of Alfred the Great as great as his celebrated grandfather? https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/in-the-shadow-of-alfred-the-great

The strange case of Saint Henry Walpole... https://aleteia.org/2025/04/07/the-strange-case-of-st-henry-walpole?utm_medium=email&utm_source=sendgrid&utm_campaign=EM-EN-Newsletter-Daily-&utm_content=Newsletter&utm_term=20250407

Convivial conversation on St. Augustine's Confessions... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91B45VN0bHo

Imagine yourself in the English countryside walking with Tolkien, Lewis or Hilaire Belloc... https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0pZrO59nzJk

Ending the dumbing down of education through the restoration of the Humanities... https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2025/04/restoring-humanities-education-not-dummies-joseph-pearce.html

Here's a brief promotional video in which I discuss my forthcoming speaking tour of Australia, hosted and sponsored by Hartford College... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0UCS1dd3-c

Here's a video of all four talks given at the Catholic Literature Conference at which I spoke. My talk is on "The Sense and Sensibility of Jane Austen". The other talks are on Homer, Willa Cather and Robert Frost... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKePVeP9or0

How an argument between Chesterton and Wells led to Lewis's conversion... https://memoriacollege.org/h-g-wells-g-k-chesterton-and-the-conversion-of-c-s-lewis/