"Not long ago, I finished Weekend Wodehouse, a 1951 collection published in London by Herbert Jenkins. The introduction is by Hilaire Belloc. As far as I can tell neither Belloc’s nor Wodehouse’s England still exists. The only way to preserve what you see, Belloc wrote, is to write about it. Then it can live forever, even in this world, as long as the word and 'this world' last."

Read more: James V. Schall, S.J., The Catholic Thing