Detail from  The Massacre of the Innocents by Léon Cogniet, 1824. Three days after the feast of the Nativity of Jesus, the Catholic Church ...

Years ago, I wrote a pretty scathing review of Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court , Mark Twain’s opus in which a clever young America...

This humble blog hit 1,000,000 views yesterday. Considering its rambling and rather uninspired beginnings in 2005, that's not too shabby...

Seven of my top 10. The others are in the house somewhere... Having homeschooled our six children for going on twenty years now, I'm sta...

Click for more info. This is a review I wrote many years ago (and never posted here) for a book that has stood the test of time: Crusader Ki...

Banned Book Week was last week. Did you miss it?  For anyone who took it seriously, let me just say this: Banned Book Week is a complete fra...

Just for Fun.

Is anyone surprised that the critics have absolutely savaged the new film, Reagan ?  I'm not.  As a teenager in the 1980s, I came of age...

Arx Publishing has recently gone live with a page of glossy quote cards  for purchase. If some of them look familiar, it's because near...

"Bravery cannot be victorious unless it is arrayed along with justice." ~Belisarius This quote is taken from an exhortation by the...

The Last Supper in cast iron, as found in the Mercer Museum, Doylestown, PA I'm not going to get into the details of the disgusting mock...

General St. Clair Augustin Mulholland later in life. As Independence Day approaches each year, I make a habit of finding a patriotic movie o...