Last week I saw a movie that made me want to change the world. And it was about aliens from outer space.
When I rented District 9, I certainly wasn’t expecting...
In my last post, I looked at how Dante uses the weaknesses and failures of Virgil as a character in the Divine Comedy to illustrate the impossibility of true st...
The first great Christian poet—perhaps the only Christian poet famous enough invariably to be taught in high school English classes—is undoubtedly Dante. His Di...
There was a holiday this weekend. Oh, it wasn’t one of the ultimately significant holidays of the year—not like Christmas or Easter—but it has importance in its...
Joseph Haydn was not a genius, Professor Robert Levin told our class. He was not born with the automatic brilliance of a Mozart or a Beethoven. He did not have ...
