Nathaniel Peters

TEAL is the Typo Eradification Advancement League. If you ever hear that our former managing editor, Anthony Sacramone, and I got banned from the National Park System for a year, I hope it’s for correcting the grammar of signs . . . . . Continue Reading »

A Boston Globe article says that George Orwell’s diaries will be put online one entry at a time. Click here to read along (and if you’re curious as to what Sloe Gin could be). . . . . Continue Reading »

Last night I finally saw Whit Stillman’s third movie, The Last Days of Disco , and it was more brilliant than I expected. The dialog in Stillman films all has the same complex, intelligent tone and one of my favorite conversations was this one on the movie Lady and the Tramp : Josh Neff: . . . . Continue Reading »

A friend of mine in the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod wrote to tell me about an episode of the radio program Issues Etc. that discussed Bernard of Clairvaux, whom the LCMS remembered on August 19. I was curious to find out what a LCMS scholar would have to say on a strong proponent of . . . . Continue Reading »

Here’s another event in the New York area that you might consider attending. Starting on September 6, on the first Saturday of every month, there will be Witness for Life, an event sponsored by The Helpers of God’s Precious Infants with the help of the Sisters of Life and the Friars of . . . . Continue Reading »

On Thursday, September 18, at 5:00 PM, the Metropolitan Opera will put on Verdi’s Requiem in honor of the first anniversary of Luciano Pavarotti’s death on September 6, 2007. James Levine will conduct the Met’s orchestra and chorus, with Barbara Frittoli, soprano, Olga Borodina, . . . . Continue Reading »

I can’t find it now, but I remember an article in the Economist a few years ago arguing that chivalric honors were useful to have because they gave governments a harmless way to honor people without, say, giving them actual responsibilities and powers. They also are pretty silly. England has . . . . Continue Reading »

Starting Monday, September 8, Fr. Joseph W. Koterski, S.J., will be giving a series of seven lectures on the life and works of John Henry Cardinal Newman, with a special focus on his An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent . The lectures are from 6:30 to 7:30 PM in the undercroft of the Church of . . . . Continue Reading »

Earlier I posted a note about our junior fellow Stefan McDaniel’s essay on friendship in the magazine Dappled Things . As I was reading the new issue yesterday, I came across an artful poem by Roger Mitchell that employs the metaphor of barrel-making to describe marriage: Holy Matrimony . . . . Continue Reading »

Earlier this week I reflected on the Class Day speech that Solzhenitsyn gave at Harvard in 1978. Over at Christianity Today , Chuck Colson offers some reflections of his own, namely comparing Solzhenitsyn to the prophet Jeremiah. Here’s a sample: As it happened, this summer I was reading a . . . . Continue Reading »