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Bastille Day Roundup

Posted on July 14, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

–Veteran British actor Freddie Jones died earlier this week at the age of 91. Both the Times and the Daily Telegraph mention his portrayal of Corporal-Major Ludovic in the BBC’s 1967 three-part adaptation of Sword of Honor as his first … Continue reading →

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Ethiopia Explicated: Waugh and Wakanda

Posted on February 23, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

In an article posted on the news website Taki’s Magazine, journalist and blogger Steve Sailer offers what seems a good summary history of Ethiopia. Perhaps central to his explanation of why an ancient Christian civilization and monarchy survived in the … Continue reading →

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Three Views of Brideshead

Posted on January 17, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

Blogger-philosophers seem to be spending the winter months reading and thinking about the religious implications of Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited. On the conservative weblog counter-currents.com, there is a two-part review of a book first published in 1947 by theologian Alan … Continue reading →

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Decline and Fall and Some Others

Posted on April 6, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Harry Mount writing in the Catholic Herald offers these additional thoughts about the BBC’s production: The new BBC One version of Decline and Fall was pretty good – but it could only fall short of the book. The genius of … Continue reading →

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