My Father Left Me Ireland: An American Son’s Search For Home by michael brendan dougherty sentinel, 223 pages, $24 Irish artists face a problem unknown to artists in, let us say, uninterrupted nations. It is possible for things, places, people to be “too Irish”—the gist of a note I . . . . Continue Reading »
Why love this world? Because it was in this world that we fell in love with God and it is only in this time that we can help other hearts turn to God. Continue Reading »
Alienation and Freedom by frantz fanon edited by jean khalfa and robert j. c. young translated by steven corcoran bloomsbury academic, 816 pages, $29.95 In the ferment of the present moment, with its surging floods of migrants and its ostensibly gratuitous but historically . . . . Continue Reading »
The Irish of today are more likely to be among the looters and book-burners, the barbarians who value nothing but what is expedient. Continue Reading »