The Gifts of the Present

by | Nov 4, 2012

Berkeley-Paris Express: A Lively Memoir of Studying Classical Music and Painting by Webster Young. Santa Fe, N.M.: Editions D’Auteurs, 2012, 347 pages, $14.50; Kindle Edition, $9.95. In his essay “On Fairy-Stories,” Tolkien famously wrote that God made men and women...

The Unknown Hegel

by | Nov 4, 2012

The Search for Historical Meaning: Hegel and the Postwar American Right by Paul Edward Gottfried. Dekalb, Illinois: Northern Illinois University Press, 1986, Revised edition 2010. Paper, $24. Few prominent postwar conservative thinkers have credited Hegelian concepts...
The Living, the Dead, and the Living Dead

The Living, the Dead, and the Living Dead

by | Oct 31, 2012

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...

About Edmund Burke

by | Oct 30, 2012

This is the entry on Edmund Burke in American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia (ISI 2006). Entry by Peter J. Stanlis. © 2006 Intercollegiate Studies Institute. Used by permission. Edmund Burke was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1729 and died in 1797 at his home in...
The Inaugural Conference

The Inaugural Conference

by | Oct 28, 2012

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...