Poet on a Volcano
Horace: Poet on a Volcano By Peter Stothard. Yale University Press, 2025. Hardcover. 288 pages. $28. Reviewed by Nadya Williams. Once upon a time, a middle-aged poet climbed up to the top of the Sicilian volcano Mount Etna. He gazed a while with longing and rising...
Here, Kirk references with approval MacIntryre's argument from "After Virtue" on the need for "communities of character."
At the passing of the great Alasdair MacIntyre, one would do well to return to Russell Kirk' s classic essay "Civilization without Religion?" https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2011/04/russell-kirk-civilization-without-religion.html
At the passing of the great Alasdair MacIntyre, one would do well to return to Russell Kirk' s classic essay "Civilization without Religion?"