Rural America as It Really Is
Faith, Family, and Flag: Branson Entertainment and the Idea of America By Joanna Dee Das. University of Chicago Press, 2025. Hardcover, 272 pages, $27.50. Reviewed by Jason C. Phillips. Over the last eighteen months, I have twice visited Branson, Missouri. Over the...
The Poet Watches Birds
Instructions for Waking By Jennifer A. Hartenburg. Kelsay Books, 2026. Paperback, 70 pages, $20. Reviewed by Matt Miller. I’m not much of a birdwatcher. We keep a few feeders, and I’m always pleased to spot a bald eagle, a pileated woodpecker, or a Baltimore oriole....
Russell Kirk on America
Russell Kirk on America Meet the Instructors: Aaron Zubia is Assistant Professor in the Hamilton School of Classical and Civic Education at the University of Florida. Previously, Zubia was a Postdoctoral Fellow with The Tocqueville Program in the Department of...
John Lukács: The Consciousness—and Conscience—of an Historian
Historical Consciousness: The Remembered Past Harper & Row, 1968 The Remembered Past ISI Books (Intercollegiate Studies Institute), 2005 (922-page collected volume; distinct from the 1968 book) The Hitler of History Alfred A. Knopf, 1997 A Thread of Years Yale...
This is good. I’d like to see a follow up piece on Wood’s The American Revolution and on Power & Liberty. Also, maybe some comment on the essay in The Idea of America that walks back the claim in Creation that 1789 marked the end of classical
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“Anton’s book, and his entire worldview, stand as direct challenges to elite preferences and institutions: Okay, boomer, what next?”
Quite the review of Michael Anton's book from Brad Watson in @KirkCenter's @ubookman. https://kirkcenter.org/reviews/a-man-for-all-seasons/