The Morning Star: A Novel By Karl Ove Knausgaard. Translated by Martin Aitken. Penguin Books, 2021. Paperback, 688 pages, $19. Reviewed by Jeffrey Wald. In “Feodor’s Guide,” David Foster Wallace’s 1996 review of Joseph Frank’s four-volume biography of Dostoevsky,...
By Carolina Riva Posse. “Augusto Del Noce will be a great loss to order, freedom and justice in Italy,” wrote Russell Kirk to Mario Marcolla in March 1990, shortly after the Italian philosopher’s death. Del Noce, probably the most important Italian...
What Are the Humanities For? By Willem B. Drees. Cambridge University Press, 2021. Hardcover, 202 pages, $34.99. Reviewed by Jason Jewell. Why do we need another book about the value of a humanities education? The short answer is that in an age of relentless focus...
The Tragedy of American Compassion By Marvin Olasky. Regnery Gateway, 2022. Paperback, 300 pages, $18.99. Reviewed by Frank Filocomo. What does it mean to be compassionate to the needy? More precisely: what does it mean to be compassionate, and who are the needy?...
Interview with Jeff Nelson Josh Lewis, host of Saving Elephants podcast, interviewed Kirk Center CEO Jeff Nelson on how he came to know and work for Russell Kirk and Kirk’s major contributions to articulating the American conservative tradition. In a wide-ranging...
Fighting for #FreeSpeech and #AcademicFreedom---the great Donald Downs (@UWMadison) reviews "You Can’t Teach That!: The Battle over University Classrooms" by @kewhittington @politybooks