Fancies, Drollery and Fiction from honorary Houyhnhnm and antic Science Fiction Writer John C. Wright
I saw a review of HIS DARK MATERIALS by Philip Pullman, where the reviewer, an otherwise wise and insightful commentator, cast doubt on the idea that the Trilogy was meant quite deliberately by the author to be an Anti-Narnia, that is, blasphemous atheist propaganda. With all due respect, this insightful reviewer was quite wrong and […]
The Female of the Species Rudyard Kipling. When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside. But the she-bear thus accosted rends the peasant tooth and nail. For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. When Nag the basking […]
I will be away from my keyboard for a week. I am planning on traveling in astral form to a hidden city in Tibet, discovering the secret subterranean gateway to Agarththa, the buried supercivilization in Pellucidar inhabited by the Original Masters guiding human evolution. There I intend to achieve enlightenment, overcoming all barriers and boundaries […]
Nolan’s ODESSEY ? Not interested. Alan Moore’s WATCHMAN? No. Disney’s LAST JEDI? Pshaw. Storytelling has three tasks: to glorify God, to recall the deeds of our ancestors, and to teach the youth to love the lovely and hate the hateful. Sublime beauty, elevated language, humor, are the means used. Modern and Postmodern crap has tree […]
There are four steps of deception that lure the unwary further away from God once he has decided to sever all ties with God. Each step is an over correction for the error in the prior step. Listed in order: 1. Selfish Worldliness aka Pragmatism. 2. Unselfish Worldliness aka a crusading idealism toward a […]
One problem I had when I lost my atheism was deciding, now that I had seen God and believed in God, into which House of God to go on the Lord’s Day to worship and pray. The decision was easier for me, as a complete outsider, than it would be for someone raised in the […]
Reviewing the full-length animated Disney features in order, we are nearing the end of the Disney Renaissance. This current film and the next enjoy well-earned iconic fame. Disney often alternates releases of stories of princesses, meant to appeal to girls, with stories of heroes, meant to appeal to boys, and so has a habit of […]
When asked the meaning of life, the modern schoolboy answers: “Life has no predefined meaning. Everyone must create his own goals.” The schoolboy should receive a flunking grade for lack of basic reasoning skills. Nothing comes from nothing. A creature with no goals cannot create goals, because the goal of creating goals is itself a […]
“Why doesn’t the Church sell all its fine art and precious metals to feed the poor?” When someone asks this question, writes Fr. Gabriel Mosher, “he is naturally defaulting to his personal experience of private ownership and then projecting that upon the institution of the Church and its ministers. The appropriate disposition, however, clearly perceives […]
Ulysses Alfred, Lord Tennyson It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match’d with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the […]
If Darwinism is true, the human brain is not a tool. A tool is an objected designed for a use: hammers to hammer nails, screwdrivers to drive screws. Now, if an intelligent being, such as an apeman, can pick up an object, such as a rock, and use it as a hammer to hammer open […]
Myself, I have no interest in seeing the latest modern or postmodern reinterpretation of Homer’s ODYSSEY, nor of any ancient ancient classic, because the very thing that makes the ancient classic both ancient and classic is its timelessness hence its eternal relevance. Such works always have something profound to say, regardless of year or season. […]
Darwin held that Man is not made in the image and likeness of God, because, in the proper sense of the term, Man is not made at all. Man is instead a mere accident of unintentional atomic and chemical motions whereby some self-replicating molecules quite pointlessly replicated themselves. Accumulated errors in the self-replication process led […]
Catholic Bard was kind enough to interview me for his website. He is trying to profile Christian writers and artists in general, and Catholics in particular. https://www.patheos.com/blogs/catholicbard/2026/07/meet-catholic-hugo-nominated-writer-john-c-wright/
I may do a proper film review in days to come, if time permits, but for now this is merely a note to anyone who cannot remember the last time he went into a film a saw a good one: Go see YOUNG WASHINGTON by Angels studios. Well acted, period accurate, dramatic yet understated, and, […]