Evelyn Waugh

I’m very pleased to announce today the release of my first novel for adults, High Concepts: A Hollywood Nightmare. It’s a dark comic spin on the age-old premise of a philosopher who goes to Hollywood and overnight becomes the film…

For this Feast of Saint Joseph the Worker, three thoughts on the meaning of work as craft…
1. Work is not meant to be worship in what Matthew B. Crawford calls the “cult of the sovereign self”; rather, work is…

The Weekend Read

by Daniel McInerny on March 25, 2012 · 1 comment

 
In one of the more perceptive passages in an extraordinarily perceptive book, G.K. Chesterton, in his Charles Dickens (1906), observes that our “modern attraction to short stories is not an accident of form; it is the sign of a…