John J. Miller is joined by Arthur Herman of the Hudson Institute to discuss Boethius's The Consolation of Philosophy. Continue reading this article with an NRPLUS subscription. Join today: 50% Off ...

Once a bedrock Christian classic, Boethius’s “Consolation of Philosophy” has been neglected for decades. It’s time for a revival. Some 27 letters into his correspondence, Screwtape stages an ...

Friday is the feast day of St. Severinus — at least, that’s the name under which the Vatican’s Sacred Congregation of Rites canonized him in 1883. But history knows and celebrates him by another name: ...

Facing death, he contemplated life and the dilemmas it presents to a self-aware human being. The result, The Consolation of Philosophy, was completed in 524 c.e., and a fine translation by David ...

The page of The Consolation of Philosophy once stolen from The Cambridge Songs Cambridge University Library Something unusual happened at the Pembroke College Chapel in Cambridge, England, over the ...

Boethius, a sixth-century Roman statesman, was in the prime of his life when his political career was brought to a sudden and ignominious end. Running afoul of corrupt politicians, he was falsely ...