The Case Against Buckley
Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America By Sam Tanenhaus. Random House, 2025. Hardcover, 1040 pages, $40.00. Reviewed by James Panero. Less than a mile separates the Catholic cemetery of Saint Bernard, the burial site of William F. Buckley Jr., off...
The Prophet of Imprudence
The Politics of Prudence By Russell Kirk. Introduction by Michael P. Federici. Regnery Gateway, 2023. Paperback, 314 pages, $19.99. Reviewed by James Panero. The early 1990s appeared to many in America as a moment of conservative ascendancy. Forty years had passed...
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What the American Revolution Secured: Order, Justice, and Freedom
A "revolution not made, but prevented.” Russell Kirk fondly and frequently quoted E. J. Payne’s pithy summary of Burke’s view of the Glorious Revolution.
"So yes, Lord Alfred, perhaps you are right after all. ’Tis not too late to seek a newer world! Perhaps one last Ulyssean adventure remains beyond the sunset, and perhaps some work of noble note may yet be done."