The Permanent Things

There was a proposal during World War II in England to suspend all formal studies of the humanities for the duration of the war. C.S. Lewis, as you can imagine, did not know whether to laugh or to cry. If you forget your history, literature, poetry, art, music, and culture in order to fight a war of survival, then you will not have much left if you survive.

Today we are challenged by forces of social disintegration which oppose everything worth preserving in Western culture for the last 2,500 years. This blog is dedicated to discussing these things, what T.S. Eliot called The Permanent Things.

My teachers, among many, include Edmund Burke and Russell Kirk, so this blog is dedicated to them. They faced adversity with a smile, a sense of humor, and hopefulness about the future, and so will I.