Nov
28
Why is it so Dark in Here?
November 28, 2005 | Leave a Comment
A. N. Wilson (”Ann” to “his” friends), a writer of no mean talent, managed to write the meanest–and most inept–biography of C. S. Lewis to date. That should come as no surprise to readers of the absolutely awful Jesus, the insipid Iris Murdoch As I Knew Her, or the unintentionally hilarious Hilaire Belloc. He tries [...]
Nov
28
I’m Positive
November 28, 2005 | Leave a Comment
I have a wonderful little book–not so very little actually: it weighs in at 1387 pages–that is remarkable not so much because of what is written in it but because of the witness it gives to a moribund worldview of a bygone era: the historical positivism of the 1950s and 1960s. The book is Volume [...]
