“As per the request of Walter Hooper,” files in Box 2 are closed until 2012 or notification of the death of the writers. But the contents of Box 1 are allegedly open to researchers. Is this really true? Some of the letters in Box 1 disprove some of Hooper’s most important claims, such as his purported secretaryship. When one researcher Read More ›
Near the end of the Hooper Papers Inventory (see “Other Material” in the previous column) one reads of “a few pages of notes about the contents of Lewis’s home in Oxford.” But this is a very erroneous description. These are five small pages of Lewis’s meticulous handwritten instructions (with a sketch) telling Walter Hooper exactly how to clear out Lewis’s Read More ›
First Things is a journal of conservative political opinion and commentary edited (and largely written) by Richard John Neuhouse, a Roman Catholic. The current issue (October 1998) contains Michael Aeschliman’s fine essay “C. S. Lewis on Mere Science” and the following unsigned review of The C. S. Lewis Reader’s Encyclopedia in the “Briefly Noted” section (pp. 77-78): “A hundred years Read More ›
by Walter Hearn (First published in HIS Magazine in March, 1964) Praise the Lord, created thing!Let all space with praises ring!Space itself, Hosannas sing,Unto God, Jehovah, King! I Subatomic Particles Particles in smallest cracks,Known but by emulsion tracks;Let all mesons praise Messiah!Songs of praise mount ever higher! Alpha, beta, gamma rays:Join the chorus of His praise!Be you ultimate or not,All Read More ›
On April 5, 2001, a small band of volunteers completed a grand slam in the Illinois legislature. Legislation to save abandoned babies passed the House of Representatives with a vote of 114 – 0. The day before, April 4, the bill passed the Senate 56 – 0. Although the bills passed without a single dissenting vote, as is common in Read More ›
Never thought I’d be writing a book on medicine with a doctor. Of course, I never thought I’d hit middle age and start to find the subject personally interesting, either. I took it on because, after a couple decades pondering the Pentagon, I was ready to try something really crazy. I have not been disappointed. What’s wrong with American medicine? Read More ›
Last Monday, Mark Edwards, PR man for the conservative think tank the Discovery Institute, was excited. “We landed on the front page of yesterday’s New York Times,” he enthused. Two weeks prior, the Discovery Institute was featured in a story on the front page of the Los Angeles Times. And CNN recently turned its cameras on the Seattle institute. The Read More ›
http://www.nationalpost.com/search/story.html?f=/stories/20010505/553186.html In America, in the United States particularly, culture wars are so hard fought that the modernist tribes are many, various and jealous of their place and context and meaning. Which means there is always a great deal of energetic sartorial signaling going on: “I am a slacker geek, with closet literary ambitions.” “I am an upper middle-class golf club Read More ›