Wayne C. Booth—Macbeth and Tragic Heroes
Priscilla Collins In “Macbeth as Tragic Hero,” literary critic and University of Chicago professor Wayne C. Booth discusses the amazing ability of William Shakespeare. Through Booth’s writing, he highlights how […]
C.S. Lewis on “The Second Coming”
C.S. Lewis Doodle For what comes is Judgment: happy are those whom it finds labouring in their vocations, whether they were merely going out to feed the pigs or laying […]
What Should We Teach in High School Literature Classes?
Paul Schleifer, SWU Professor If you were to come to my house, you might notice that the molding in one of our bathrooms is incomplete. It’s been incomplete for quite a […]
Clown Nose, On and Off—Chandler Bing Handles Friends
Lily Elmore CHANDLER: I’m not great at the advice. Can I interest you in a sarcastic comment? CHANDLER: I say more dumb things before 9 a.m. than most people say all […]
Prelude to ‘Faery’—Two Tales by J.R.R. Tolkien
Chad Chisholm, CIFC Director The following video lecture discusses two lesser-known stories by renowned author J.R.R. Tolkien—Smith of Wootton Major and Farmer Giles of Ham. Our conversation will explore the […]
Gothic Horror, Christian Ethos—Susan Hill’s The Woman in Black
Chad Chisholm, CIFC Director While the 2012 movie, with its countless changes and deviations from the original storyline, has shaped the most recent perceptions of Susan Hill’s gothic story The […]
Good Ballplayer, Bad Sportswriter, and Ugly Journalism
Marshall Tankersley, Student Editor In an age of instant access news (and gossip), it is all too easy to be in the position of having to discern what is truth […]
Descent into the Maelström—A Prison Experiment at Stanford University
Britton A. Taylor The 2015 film The Stanford Prison Experiment, based on the actual psychological experiment of 1971, is an incredibly moving production that tests the manner in which social […]
Melody at the Edge of Apocalypse—Music in Pat Frank’s Alas, Babylon
Zachary Wheeler When I consider a world without music, it brings tears to my eyes. For me, music is my biggest passion. Music is in every fiber of my being […]
“Just a Flesh Wound”—Randomness, Relevance, and Sheer Brilliance in Monty Python
Allison Kisiel An enduring franchise that continues to influence and shape the world of comedy is the Monty Python ensemble. From 1969 to the early 1980s, the British comedy sextet […]
Finding Happiness in the Captain’s Not-So-Perfect, Double Life
Dakota Smith Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live two different lives? Have you ever wanted to split life between the wild and the plain? In […]
Men, Women, and Demons—C.S. Lewis’s Screwtape Letters
Lillian Elmore This is the final part of our fall series on C.S. Lewis’s epistolary novel The Screwtape Letters. “She’s the sort of woman who lives for others—you can tell by their […]