Every teen has his idols; Alexandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), famous author who was imprisoned for years under the Soviet regime, was one of mine. I bought volume one of his grim, great Gulag Archipelago (Prison Islands) trilogy, and it spent the summer of 1974 with me. I sat in our old [...]

[The below 2008 column appeared originally on my political blog, Blue Christian on a Red Background. We try to be less overt here than I was over there. But this column's theme seems as accurate today to me as it was when I wrote it. Maybe moreso. I'm ashamed to [...]

Threads of despair and fantasy are woven together in a poetic work C. S. Lewis, best known for his post-conversion Christian writings, penned as a young man just back from World War I. In 1919, Spirits in Bondage was published under the pseudonym “Clive Hamilton.” It might be a stretch to [...]

The following article is posted on Wilson Station with its author, LaVonne Neff’s, express permission. For more book reviews from LaVonne, see The Neff Review. AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Margaret Sanger Margaret Sanger, adored and reviled as the mother of birth control, published her autobiography in 1938 when she was 59 [...]