[A term paper I wrote for my course Desire of Every Nation at Davenant Hall. A PDF copy is available here.] Introduction "The consolation of fairy-stories" is, Tolkien tells us, "the joy of the happy ending."1 On that note, then, tragedy as a genre is dead. Fairy tales have won the day. This is prob… Read more…

[A repost from a previous blog] The moon landing was a hoax. Chemtrails are poisoning our brains. Roswell is covering up an alien spacecraft. Obama is a secret Muslim. Jet fuel doesn't melt steel beams. The Illuminati run the world. Everyone knows about conspiracy theories. Most of us don't believe most of them, of cou… Read more…