Why Read Moby-Dick? By Nathaniel Philbrick. 144 pp. Viking Adult. $25. If such a thing as the Great American Novel exists, Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick is almost certainly the finest example…

I don’t know why I was thinking about this most amusing of meters this morning, but it occurs to me that our good readers might help me add to the…

General Introduction – Welcome to November, from October – Michial’s one-man war on portmanteaux – Buy our mugs! (I mean energy, not internet—we record early in the morning) – Listener…

General Introduction – Flowin’ like a bottle of Drano – What’s on the blog? – A listener vastly overestimates us Who Is Prometheus? – Deflating Gilmour’s balloon – Zeus as…

General Introduction – What is a triptych, anyway? – We stand outside of time – What’s on the blog? Euripides the Man – What do we know? – Making fun…

General Introduction – Looking for the Yeti – What’s on the blog? – The review is coming tomorrow! – Boethius Battlefield writes in – An unenthusiastic obituary A Primer on…

As many of our readers know, this is my first semester teaching at a Christian college, and I find myself less prepared than I expected to be. I am mostly…

In the anthology of C.S. Lewis’s writings published with the title God in the Dock, we find this interesting tidbit, which may be something of an answer to my speculative…

General Introduction – Facebook feedback – The podcast gains sentience – The return of CWC – Homebrewed Christianity A Practical Topic – Where do intellectuals fit into a local congregation?…

The Moviegoer turns fifty. The decline and fall of the Borders Empire. Resources for teaching introductory philosophy (Gilmour is so going to use the Gadfly Experiment next time he teaches…

There’s a game Christian intellectuals sometimes play regarding ancient philosophers. “If he had lived 400 years later,” the question goes, “would Plato (or Aristotle, or Euripides, or Cicero, or Confucius,…

Is the contemporary American novel written in vernacular English? A Londoner visits Atlanta (and has several nice things to say about it!) What’s Harold Bloom’s favorite book of the Bible?…

The closed-mindedness of liberal academia. New York Magazine profiles The King’s College. Saying good-bye to John Stott.

General Introduction –  What’s wrong with the blog? –  Our shame in the face of The Pietist Schoolman –  The perils of Internet celebrity –  Working on our Night Cheese…

Mike Tyson Slept Here by Chris Huntington 201 pp. Boaz Publishing $14.95 First off, don’t refresh your browser–this is Nathan Gilmour writing a review of contemporary American literary fiction.  Yes,…