hillaire belloc

Tucker Carlson Is A Few Ave Maria’s From Becoming A Catholic Distributist

Mandeville, LA - Wow...just wow! Watch this monologue from Fox News' Tucker Carlson and, for the moment, imagine you're listening to Hilaire Belloc deliver the same, oh so juicy and enlightening screed. OK, Fantasy Island time is over, Carlson is not Belloc but he is but a few Ave Maria's away and we should all pray for him (really). What Tucker has written and then voiced is Fox News first and […]

January 9, 2019 16

Veritas et Sapientia

Veritas et Sapientia – All Hail, Wine!

Mandeville, LA - [Editor's note: While visiting with Mr. Aidan Mackey, in Oxford, Oxfordshire England, he receommended I read Hillaire Belloc's poem, In Praise of Wine. I did and so enjoyed it, I'm sharing the conclusion here. Long live ChesterBelloc! - MC - Ed.] When from the waste of such long labour done I too must leave the grape-ennobling sun And like the vineyard worker take my way Down the long […]

September 5, 2018 21

Veritas et Sapientia

Veriats et Sapientia-No Malarkey Here-Belloc Was Right About Islam Crushing Secularism

Mandeville, LA - [Editor's note: Maureen Malarkey feted Hillaire Belloc's master-work on The Great Heresies, 80 years on, by essaying that Belloc was right and unless we turn back to The Faith, Islam will crush a secular Europe. - Ed., M.C.] Belloc understood what modernity blithely ignores: cultures spring from religions. Religion is a vital sustaining force. Its disintegration entails the historic decay of the culture that carries it. Belloc […]

July 25, 2017 6