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February 4th, 2012Monarch of All I Surveyby Sophia Mason
Reading over a writer’s account of her brief acquaintance with the late Christopher Hitchens, it struck me that the first problem of an atheist is that he is bound to be a lonely person. Hitchens, of course, was temperamentally lonely: so irascible by nature, so little prone to give his fellow men credit for virtue, that he was bound to isolation. Those whom he got along best with seem to have shared his critical personality and, even more tellingly, seem to have spent little time with him. A dedicated iconoclast is a dangerous person to befriend.
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His Peace She Gives Usby Kevin O'Brien
Dawn Eden is a friend of mine and one of the most intelligent women I've ever met. She shares with me a love for G. K. Chesterton and an adult conversion that brought her from much suffering and sin into a life of grace. So we have some things in common, and I admire her greatly.
As the Globe Turnsby Kevin O'Brien
Chesterton Academy in Minneapolis recently produced my play As the Globe Turns, a comedy about a traveling troupe of Shakespearian actors.
A Pat on Our Backsby Joseph Pearce
I'm not sure that it's fully decorous to publish notes from StAR subscribers that praise the quality of the journal, nor am I sure that it's decorous to publish notes that praise my own work as series editor of the Ignatius Critical Editions. This being so I am rather bashful as I post Harry Colin's recent e-mail to the Ink Desk. I have his permission to do so, and I have the excuse that both StAR and the ICEs warrant praise! I hope, therefore, that I will be forgiven the sheer chutzpah of the post: