Scholarly Blinders and the Diversity of Authoritarianism
The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today by David Stasavage. Princeton University Press, 2020. Hardcover, 424 pages, $35. Reviewed by Julian G. Waller The authoritarian regimes of today are nothing like those of yesterday, and...
What the Humanities Battle Is For
The Battle of the Classics: How a Nineteenth-Century Debate Can Save the Humanities Today by Eric Adler. Oxford University Press, 2020. Hardcover, 272 pages, $35. Reviewed by Jessica Hooten Wilson We’ve become accustomed to the “battle” language with regards to the...
Order Beyond Adler
The Battle of the Classics: How a Nineteenth-Century Debate Can Save the Humanities Today by Eric Adler. Oxford University Press, 2020. Hardcover, 272 pages, $35. Reviewed by Pavlos Papadopoulos Eric Adler’s Battle of the Classics (2020) and Classics, the Culture...
Content Is Key
The Battle of the Classics: How a Nineteenth-Century Debate Can Save the Humanities Today by Eric Adler. Oxford University Press, 2020. Hardcover, 272 pages, $35. Reviewed by Joshua Kinlaw It is salutary to be reminded that the history of Western education has always...
Russell Kirk collection thus far arranged by date of original publication (Conservative Mind and Politics of Prudence are in my campus office).
Continuing in our celebration of the centenary of "Democracy and Leadership" by Irving Babbitt, reviewer Claes G. Ryn discusses the hostile reactions to Babbitt's views in his time.