http://zionica.com Where Christianity intersects with politics, culture, and entertainment. Wed, 22 May 2013 12:02:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://zionica.com/2012/10/26/the-legacy-of-jacques-barzun/ http://zionica.com/2012/10/26/the-legacy-of-jacques-barzun/#comments Fri, 26 Oct 2012 15:31:07 +0000 Zionica http://zionica.com/?p=21958

One of the last of the generation of critics that included Edmund Wilson, Irving Howe, and Lionel Trilling, Jacque Barzun, who died yesterday at the age of 104, developed a historically informed critical approach that, without descending into polemic, didn’t shy from defining or diagnosing Western culture. For Barzun, “the historian can only show, not…]]> http://zionica.com/2012/10/26/the-legacy-of-jacques-barzun/feed/ 1 http://zionica.com/2012/06/13/christianity-culture-and-the-problem-of-establishment/ http://zionica.com/2012/06/13/christianity-culture-and-the-problem-of-establishment/#comments Wed, 13 Jun 2012 13:13:23 +0000 Zionica http://zionica.com/?p=20107

T. S. Eliot indisputably was, and remains, in the first rank of poets of any era and any culture. Eliot is almost as well known among literate persons as a critic and literary theorist. His journal, The Criterion, despite its short lifespan, remains the standard of high modernism. Continuing interest in Eliot is shown in…]]> http://zionica.com/2012/06/13/christianity-culture-and-the-problem-of-establishment/feed/ 5