Frank Freeman is a writer and book reviewer who contributed to The Weekly Standard between 2015 and 2016. His pieces for the magazine focused on literary and cultural criticism, often engaging with themes of religion, morality, and character.
In many ways, for those who dislike the apologetics of C. S. Lewis and/or the fantasy of J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams (1886-1945) is the most approachable of the Inklings. He was more connected to the ideas and people of the present moment than were Lewis, who never read newspapers and called…
There is always a danger in bringing up C. S. Lewis in a conversation with people you do not know well. As a professor once told me, “most people either love him or hate him.” And sometimes the ones who hate him have not read him very well or deeply. When I proposed doing a thesis on him in…