Aristotle’s Guide to Weight Loss

Last week I posted some thoughts regarding virtue ethics.  The previous week I wrote disparagingly about Clean Eating. Since then, a lot of people have asked me about the connection between diet and virtue.   OK, Tom Hanks is right. No one has asked me that. But still, it’s a question I’d like to engage. …

Flash Review: Into the Wild

I first read Into the Wild as a teenager. I was working at a Christian bookstore at the time, selling copies of Left Behind and The Prayer of Jabez in a shopping center off the highway. On breaks I would walk across parking lots and past chain restaurants to the Barnes & Noble to read John Krakauer’s account of …

Flash Review: The Supper of the Lamb

At times, reading Robert Capon’s The Supper of the Lamb feels like being shown around a quaint cooking shop by its aged proprietor. He strolls with you through the aisles, offering delightful, unsolicited advice on culinary implements: If you never sharpen your own knives, you will no doubt prefer stainless ones; but if you are …

What Happened to Lewis and Chesterton?

In his autobiography, G.K. Chesterton, the great 19th century British author, describes a formative early experience. “The very first thing I can ever remember seeing with my own eyes was a young man walking across a bridge. He had a curly moustache and an attitude of confidence verging on swagger.” The man, we’re told, was …