Lord of the Hollow Dark by Russell Kirk. St. Martin’s Press, 1979. “I will show you fear in a handful of dust.” —T. S. Eliot, The Wasteland October at Piety Hill in rural northern Michigan is a glorious thing. As the harvest comes to a close, nature’s grand finale...
Mecosta, Michigan, May 2002 On May 10–12, 2002, the Edmund Burke Society of America hosted the first in its proposed series of annual academic conferences, “Fresh Perspectives on Burke Studies in Higher Education.” A distinguished group of Burke...
Committee President: Dr. Elizabeth R. Lambert Director: Dr. Ian Crowe Secretary: Dr. Steven P. Millies Treasurer: Dr. Jeffrey O. Nelson President Emeritus: Dr. Joseph L. Pappin III Reports A report from our inaugural May 2002 conference, “Fresh Perspectives on...
Jeffrey D. Pearce recently guest edited two “lib guides”—thematic lists of reading resources—for the library of Everett Community College in Everett, Washington. In “Ghostly Sightings…And Other Scary Stories…”, Pearce links to Russell Kirk’s short story...
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[F]or all their handwringing about the red-state barbarians at the gates, Chemerinsky and Gillman cannot or will not see what their own argument and their own evidence of student, faculty, and administrator behavior show to even a mildly attentive reader: The greatest enemies of