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Reading as a Reality Check, by Joseph Pearce – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Reading as a Reality Check, by Joseph Pearce

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Books photo by Susan Q Yin. Stadsbiblioteket, Stockholm, Sweden. Unsplash.

By Joseph Pearce, Crisis Magazine, March 28, 2026

Joseph Pearce is Visiting Professor of Literature at Ave Maria University and a Visiting Fellow of Thomas More College of Liberal Arts (Merrimack, New Hampshire). The author of over thirty books, he is editor of the St. Austin Review, series editor of the Ignatius Critical Editions, senior instructor with Homeschool Connections, and senior contributor at the Imaginative Conservative and Crisis Magazine. His personal website is http://www.jpearce.co.

Great literature acts as a prism to reveal a vivid spectrum of colors previously unseen.

What is real? What is reality? What is virtual reality? How real is virtual reality? How often do we think of these questions? Do we think of these questions? Do we think? Do we?

These questions spring to mind because I’ve been spending some time with the great contemporary Catholic philosopher Peter Kreeft—not in person, more’s the pity, but in the pages of his new book, The Two Greatest Novels Ever Written: The Wisdom of The Lord of the Rings and The Brothers Karamazov.

Anything that Dr. Kreeft writes is worth reading. Many of his books grace the shelves of the Pearce family library. He is equally comfortable writing on philosophy or theology, or on both simultaneously. One of his books is called The Philosophy of Jesus. He also likes to surf; not the web (thanks be to God!) but the waves. …

Reading as a Reality Check, by Joseph Pearce

Fr. Raymond J. de Souza: Scott Hahn and His Happy Band of Convert Brothers

Senate Advances DHS Funding Bill That Cuts Off ICE and Border Patrol, Adjourns for Easter Break Without Debating SAVE America Act, by Elise Winland

By Joseph Pearce, Crisis Magazine, March 28, 2026

Great literature acts as a prism to reveal a vivid spectrum of colors previously unseen.

What is real? What is reality? What is virtual reality? How real is virtual reality? How often do we think of these questions? Do we think of these questions? Do we think? Do we?

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