Kirk on Eliot on PT
By ‘the Permanent Things’ [T. S. Eliot] meant those elements in the human condition that give us our nature, without which we are as the beasts that perish. They work upon us all in the sense that both they and we are bound up in that continuity of belief...Kirk on Progress
Real progress consists in the movement of mankind toward the understanding of norms, and toward conformity to norms. Real decadence consists in the movement of mankind away from the understanding of norms, and away from obedience to norms.Books in Little
A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America, John J. Miller (Encounter Books, 241 pp. $25.95). As American conservatism matures, and its histories are written, the entities and individuals that made its rise and influence possible have begun to...On Russian Conservatism
Russian Conservatism and Its Critics: A Study in Political Culture by Richard Pipes. Yale University Press (New Haven, Connecticut), 216 pp., $30.00 cloth, 2006. Constructing a sustainable political order has been the fundamental challenge for Russia since the Soviet...
Timely, for sure. Hope @realdonaldtrump is reading.