Russell Kirk’s “Rights and Duties” translated into Italian by Dr. Agostino Carrino The Kirk Center is very pleased to announce that Russell Kirk’s book Rights and Duties has been translated into Italian by the distinguished legal scholar Agostino...
Let Us Begin: Saint Francis’s Way of Becoming Like Christ and Renewing the World By Thomas Griffin. Our Sunday Visitor, 2024. Paperback, 168 pages, $18.95. Reviewed by David G. Bonagura, Jr. The New Deal. The Great Society. No Child Left Behind. Build Back Better. The...
America First: Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War By H. W. Brands. Doubleday, 2024. Hardcover, 464 pages, $35. Reviewed by John C. “Chuck” Chalberg. With the first Trump administration still a lively memory and a second Trump presidency just getting...
2024 in Review: A Banner Year for the Kirk Center 2024 was a banner year in terms of the Kirk Center’s impact. We’re grateful for the goodwill and support of many friends around the nation and world who helped us take significant steps forward last year....
Commentary on Proverbs By Philip Melanchthon. Translated and edited by Derek Cooper and Timothy J. Wengert. CLP Academic, 2023. Hardcover, 282 pages, $29.95. Reviewed by Manfred Svensson. Who has the most ancient wisdom? Are Christians plundering “the gold of the...
Letters From the Voyages of St. Frances Cabrini By St. Frances Xavier Cabrini. Edited by Michael A. LaMorte. Catholic Treehouse, 2024. Paperback, 380 pages, $19.99. Reviewed by Isaiah Flair. “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given...
Father Joseph Fessio, S.J.: California Blackrobe By Cornelius Michael Buckley. S.J. Ignatius Press, 2024. Hardcover, 379 pages, $27.95. Reviewed by Lee Oser. “Fessio.” The name has become a test. The first card the reviewer lays on the table will evoke a smile or a...
The Perennial Edmund Burke Dr. Ian Crowe, Ph.D.Director of the Edmund Burke Society of AmericaAssociate Professor at Belmont Abbey College Dr. Gregory Collins, Ph.D.Lecturer in the Program on Ethics, Politics, and Economics and Department of Political Science at Yale...
On Being Civilized: A Few Lines Amid the Breakage By Tracy Lee Simmons. Memoria College Press, 2023. Paperback, 281 pages, $15.45. Reviewed by Darrell Falconburg. “What is civilization?” When confronted with what appears to be civilizational disintegration, many...
Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel’s Messiah By Charles King. Doubleday, 2024. Hardcover, 352 pages, $32.00. Reviewed by Rev. Dr. Karl C. Schaffenburg. Joyeuses Fêtes! as a seasonal greeting is no more silly than “Happy Holidays!”,...
Climate Realism in an Alarmed Age
Joshua J. Bowman on "Climate and Energy: The Case for Realism," edited by E. Calvin Beisner and David R. Legates. @Regnery
