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I'm delighted to have had the chance to sit down with Tom Sarrouf of @ISI , to have a chat about King Arthur and the Arthurian mythos. Check out the ISI podcast here:

Podcasts - Intercollegiate Studies Institute

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I have a short Christmas story, as Advent approaches: When I was six or seven years old, my parents bought a house. We had been relatively poor, moving from place to place every year: my father was a floor-layer and my mother had been an Avon lady. But then my mother got a

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Friends, I have had no income since 14 September and we have had to borrow money from family members in order to afford groceries and pay our mortgage. This can’t go on much longer. No charity is desired, except for your prayers. For those, you have our thanks. 🙏🏻

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My goodness! I am overwhelmed by how this has resonated with people from all the world over. Thank you all ever so much for your kind words, sentiments, and tidings of the season, and may God bless you all!

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Friends, my family needs your prayers. I have been chasing leads and doing my best to find a position for a year now without success. We are really up against it. The possibility that we will lose our house is a constant source of all-consuming anxiety; our savings is almost

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@realchrisrufo From 'my truth' to 'my resignation' in 26 days.

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No more philosophy, theology, French, or German. But good news—all the administrative roles are safe! It might even be possible to hire some more administrators! Phew!

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UNC Asheville chancellor announces academic department cuts | Raleigh News & Observer

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9 months

Have just received a bit good news via e-mail. Thank you all for your prayers! They do work!!

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9 months

Friends, I have had no income since 14 September and we have had to borrow money from family members in order to afford groceries and pay our mortgage. This can’t go on much longer. No charity is desired, except for your prayers. For those, you have our thanks. 🙏🏻

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I should be very grateful if, in your charity, you might please remember my father, Phillip, in your prayers. He died on 1 May, three years ago. I miss him ever so much. Thank you. 🙏🏻

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9 months

I have a cardiac MRI this morning. It has been about six months since the last one, which confirmed all sorts of unhappy things. I am praying for a much better result this time!

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I hope that you will join with me in praying for the innocent victims of war, and especially for the children brutalised by war. Lord, have mercy. Christ, have mercy. Lord, have mercy.

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7 months

I should be grateful if, in your charity, you would pray for the repose of my aunt Ramona, who died today at her family home in West Virginia.

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1 month

Prayers up for the best of Tweetmen: that he may suffer no ill from being doxxed, and that those who wish him harm may see their schemes come to ruin.

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Based on what I've been able to piece together he made a bunch of actual Nazis + Black Nationalists angry when he made fun of some Nazi thing earlier, and they ganged up on him and started calling him Jewish (wtf?!) and then doxxed him.

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Good King Wenceslas looked out, On the Feast of Stephen…

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8 months

I should be grateful if, in your charity, you would pray for my aunt, gravely ill with cancer, and my brother-in-law, seriously ill with kidney failure, both of whom are in hospital down at U of MI. Thank you, and may God bless you.

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9 months

Really excellent result today. Thank you so much for your prayers!

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9 months

I have a cardiac MRI this morning. It has been about six months since the last one, which confirmed all sorts of unhappy things. I am praying for a much better result this time!

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3 months

Very positive news today: the roofing company sent a man out who admitted that it hadn't been done correctly, and that they will fix everything under warranty at no cost. Thanks be to God!

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3 months

Terrible news from the inspector in re. the roof and crawlspace today. Moisture, mold, etc. Insurance probably won't cover the fortune it will cost to fix, and we haven't got a bean. One entertains fantasies of fleeing into the woods to live atop a tree.

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9 months

I think this is one of the more important things that I have written—some reflections On Advancing a Conservative Aesthetics, which have grown out of my experiences over the past year:

On Advancing a Conservative Aesthetics

The flickering torch illuminating the pathway towards the True, the Good, and the Beautiful must not expire on our watch.

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An impromptu family portrait at the wedding, taken in front of the backdrop they had set up. Absolutely impossible getting the boys to remain still even for a moment, but it still came out alright (if a bit silly).

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As I turn to the task of cleaning out my library, the time has come for me to accept that my teaching career is almost certainly at an end. I'm profoundly grateful to have met so many truly brilliant and incredibly gracious people—a good number of whom I now consider some of my

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10 things I like that everyone else should like: 1. Opera 2. Cricket 3. Arthurian Literature 4. Pre-XXth c. Poetry 5. Tea 6. Organ Music 7. The Latin Mass 8. Mystery Novels 9. The Works of Tolkien 10. Summer

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1 year

I am pleased to share that my article, "Guilt, Shame, and Truth in Malory's Le Morte Darthur", has been accepted for publication in the next volume of Encomia.

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10 months

Not the best possible result from yesterday‘s echocardiogram. I must go in for a cardiac MRI. Your prayers, as always, are appreciated.

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8 months

A world without people would not be some kind of great ‘ecological achievement’: it would be completely meaningless, because only *people* value such things (and only some people, at that), and they wouldn’t exist.

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we once considered suicidal ideation a severe mental illness. now it's celebrated in the pages of our most storied literary magazines.

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@LibrarianVee Indeed!

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Ahead of Saturday's Christmas party, my wife found a dining room table set at the local thrift store. So we have finally replaced the table with the broken leg that was left by the previous homeowner!

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Hamlet is one of those great works that contains multitudes. I have read it and seen it more times than I can count, and yet there is always something new, something fascinating. It is a country both familiar and perpetually undiscovered.

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CR Episode 194: Hamlet, Act II

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@yuanyi_z Throwing my copy of Narnia to the floor, bellowing, 'Kings and Queens don't come from another world! That's not how royal succession works!'

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9 months

As a new Assistant Editor, I have one goal for the magazine, one lofty target at which to aim: the replacement of the word 'fall' (from the poetic cliché 'the fall of the leaf') with the word 'autumn'. I have a year to make my case. Dream big!

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In today's post, this marvelous issue of @EuroConOfficial , beautifully laid out with an eye to aesthetic detail on every page, touching on one vital issue after another: political, social, cultural, spiritual.

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@frjoshTX There is no such thing as a book 'problem'—except not having enough books.

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@bernardtjoy Day-Lewis did a remarkable job but it is unlikely that anyone will probably ever best Paul Giamatti as John Adams. An absolute tour de force performance. Impossibly good.

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2 months

Please pray for the child who died in this afternoon's storm, and for the bereaved family. Lord, have mercy. 🙏🏻

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I’m at 7 Mile and Middlebelt once a week Tragedy can hit close to home. A 2-year-old died in this tornado

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7 months

In your charity, please pray for the repose of both my aunt Ramona and my aunt Vicky, and for the comfort of their families.

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9 months

Cleaned the organ coupler rods! The depth of sound when they are on doesn't really come through on my phone, but here's a bit of fun just the same.

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1 year

Today, it was my keen pleasure to introduce @d_n_keane to this poem, which I think might be the best poem written since the turn of the century.

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God bless the memory of John Quincy Adams for this act, which gave us our parish church.

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In your charity, please pray for Fr. Goyo. 🙏🏻

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The news I feared is here. I have a big cancerous tumor. They don’t know if they can operate or even shrink. So I guess my next appointment will determine what my future is. I am at peace and at the same time scared. I pray for all who hear the cancer news for first time. Not fun

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1 year

From 15-20% in March up to 40-45% today (50% is normal)! Thanks be to God!

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3 months

Thank you all ever so much for your extraordinarily kind replies, and especially for your prayers. My father died on the feast of St. Joseph the Worker. His whole life, he worked hard—harder than anyone I've ever known, and right to the end, too.

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I should be very grateful if, in your charity, you might please remember my father, Phillip, in your prayers. He died on 1 May, three years ago. I miss him ever so much. Thank you. 🙏🏻

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Sometimes, I think, “Well, maybe I should just get a J.D. as well.” But then I look around the library at the books, the organ, and the piano. I look out the window at the trees and the birds, and I sip my tea, and I laugh and laugh and laugh.

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11 months

Just had my last electrocardiology appointment. Got the big thumbs-up, no need to more appointments with him unless something changes!

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My step-father is in the hospital ICU with some heart-related issues. If, in charity, you would remember him in your prayers, my family would be very grateful. Thank you. 🙏🏻

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@Sachinettiyil @Card_R_Sarah May it be so!

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Oh Lord, have mercy. For pity's sake, have mercy upon your people.

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Together we mourn the loss of Spencer Vermeule and pray for his family, loved ones and all those who are impacted by his passing.

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1 year

On my way to get my follow-up echocardiogram. This will be the first time since the diagnosis back in March. Hoping for some more positive results!

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9 months

My "Coming soon!" update: A scholarly article in Encomia; Essays in Fare Forward, The American Conservative, and The European Conservative, with one in progress for Athwart; And a book chapter in a university press volume on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight!

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1 year

Born on this date, Conrad Aiken (5 August 1889 – 17 August 1973). When Aiken was 11 years old, his father murdered his mother and then committed suicide. Moments later, Aiken entered the room and discovered what had happened. Years later, he wrote this poem.

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@Goodtweet_man "Governor Poo-som"

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Heartening to know that even this, too, shall pass, and Notre Dame will be restored in glory.

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On this day five years ago ... a tragic symbol of the suffering and destruction of our age.

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Cracking on! 💦

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10 months

There was never a point when it wasn’t justified. 😎

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At what point is the Catholic Church justified in petitioning to take back these medieval cathedrals?

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9 months

Things are moving again, and there is more progress today! We are hoping that, by the end of the year, this period of impecunity will be behind us, although it will take us a while to rebuild our safety net. Thank you all for your continued prayers!

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@reginamrc6 Thank you!

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From today’s editing commentary.

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Not a bad place to work of an afternoon, all things considered.

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Today is my first column in @EuroConOfficial ! What does Malory's Holy Grail suggest about the Common Good?

Malory’s Grail and the Common Good

Malory, like Galahad, understands an important truth: that the ultimate end of the political common good is the spiritual common good.

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There should be no delay—not even the '7 second industry standard' delay—for a Presidential debate. If one of the candidates utters a profanity, or lies, or falls over, or glitches out, it should be able to be seen and discussed by absolutely every single voter.

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3 months

A favourite by Raphael.

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@OwlixB That's very kind, and I'm genuinely touched by your generosity! But honestly, just prayers—if it can move mountains, it can do this one thing for which we have all been praying for months.

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A very kind fellow who plays in a band has generously given his late father’s organ to my family. It is in exceptional condition and will be delivered on Wednesday. May God bless him abundantly for his extraordinary generosity! The boys are beside themselves with excitement!

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@GrayConnolly ‘It’s a gross failure of design that my very minority view can’t be imposed upon the nation’s founding document!’ These people are really telling on themselves, especially given all their jaw about “attacks on democracy“.

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I should be grateful if, in your charity, you might pray for the repose of my aunt Vicki, whose funeral was today, and for the comfort of her family. Thank you, and may God bless you. 🙏🏻

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In today's post, for the purposes of review (forthcoming in @EuroConOfficial )!