December 19, 2008

Over the last several years, I have encountered an increasing number of articles and discussions about the “secularization” or “commercialization” of Christmas. Recently, a local newscast conducted a street poll in which nearly every interviewee agreed that Christmas was “coming earlier and earlier every year.” Christmas music starts too soon. Stores bring out decorations too […]

From Man’s Unconquerable Mind by Gilbert Highet: It was the western part of the empire, the Roman part, that collapsed first; the eastern sector, the Greek-speaking area, maintained itself under almost incessant attacks for another thousand years. And if one were asked to venture a single explanation of that odd disparity, one would do well