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Everything Old is New Again

If you are old enough, as I am, to remember the Apollo space program then watching Artemis II circle the moon yesterday came with an odd sense of déjà vu.  Sure the lunar orbit was larger, hence the distance from Earth was farther, sure this…

In The Mailbox: 04.06.26 : The Other McCain

Posted on | April 7, 2026 | No Comments — compiled by Wombat-socho Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt. Ugh, again? OVER THE TRANSOMDirector Blue: Liberty vs. Tyranny – Charting The Course of Human Freedom, A Day With Crispus Attucks At The…

Evelyn Waugh’s death, sixty years on

On Easter Sunday, April 10, 1966, Evelyn Waugh was at his most benign. He had not seemed this content for years. With his family, he had just heard Mass, celebrated by his favourite Jesuit, Fr Philip Caraman SJ, in the ancient, beleaguered…