A Moral Enterprise: Politics, Reason, and the Human Good: Essays in Honor of Francis Canavan, (eds.) Kenneth L. Grasso and Robert P. Hunt, (ISI Books, Wilmington, Delaware, 2002). A Review Fr. Francis Canavan, S.J., has made a deep impact upon Burke studies in the...
Feature Article French Laurence and the Legacy of Edmund Burke The artist Joseph Farington recorded the death of Edmund Burke rather monochromatically in his diary: “He died of an atrophy and suffered little pain,—He had spit blood and wasted away. Dr. Lawrence [sic]...
The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke, Volume VII: India. The Hastings Trial 1789-1794, Edited by P. J. Marshall, Clarendon Press (Oxford), 2000 A Review This volume is the seventh to appear in the new Oxford edition of Burke’s works under the general editorship...
First, Edmund Burke was a Christian, despite the doubts that critics have expressed about his faith. But he was the child of a mixed marriage between a Catholic mother and a Protestant father, a member of the Established Church of Ireland. Because Edmund was somewhat...
A Theory of Justice, by John Rawls. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1972.What is justice? This question has perennially aroused the avid interest of man ever since he began pondering the riddles of the universe. Plato, who...
Geopolitics and the Making of the Modern World
John P. Rossi on "The Eurasian Century: Hot Wars, Cold Wars and the Making of the Modern World" by Hal Brands. @wwnorton
The Context for Human Dignity
Rev. Joseph Scolaro reviews "On the Dignity of Society: Catholic Social Teaching and Natural Law" by F. Russell Hittinger. @CUAPress