On winter nights in the early sixteen-sixties, a blind poet lay awake in his bed and dreamed of the universe. Before his eyes swam suns and stars. A celestial light, visible to him alone, revealed a ...

Three convicted child-killers have just spent their first weekend of freedom in 18 years, after being released from an Arkansas prison on Friday. Not everyone is happy but the news has been cheered by ...

I n a recent skirmish in the current war on woke, John Milton’s Paradise Lost was caught in the crossfire. In December 2024, the scholar Orlando Reade’s book on the “revolutionary afterlife” of Milton ...

Alan Jacobs clarifies centuries of debate over John Milton’s epic retelling of the Fall. Christian life is rooted in a story with a specific plot. It begins with God’s creation of the world, builds ...