Books
2025 Reading List
The Midwestern Spy Reading List for 2024 is afoot, let the reading begin!
D.S. Morgan
D.S. Morgan is the editor and chief of The Midwestern Spy, when he writes his focus is on Christianity, Culture and Corruption.
Great Essays
A Not Unlikely Tale
What exactly happened when Man fell, we do not know; but if it is legitimate to guess, I offer the following picture - a "myth" in the Socratic sense, a not unlikely tale.
Great Essays
Politics and the English Language
The essay below was initially published by George Owell in Horizons, April 1946. In this essay, Orwell grapples with the effects of our decaying English language and the effects it has on political discourse. Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is
Politics
A Silence Louder Than Words
There used to be a saying that the most dangerous place in the world was between Chuck Schumer and a CNN Camera, as it happens, I do not know whether the saying is true, but there are more desirable places to be—such as the bottom of a volcano or
Great Essays
Lincoln’s Letter To Horace Greeley
This letter was originally written by Abraham Lincoln addressed to one Horace Greeley who had harshly criticized him in the New York Tribune. Abraham had already had the Emancipation Proclamation Speech partly written and this letter shows Lincoln's foremost thought - Preserving The Union. Executive Manson, Washington, August
Great Essays
The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment
This essay by C.S. Lewis was originally published in 20th Century: An Australian Quarterly" as it could not be published in England at the time it was written - it was also published in God In The Dock. It discusses civil authority, criminality and other penological themes. In