The Inaugural Conference

The Inaugural Conference

by | Oct 28, 2012

Mecosta, Michigan, May 2002 On May 10–12, 2002, the Edmund Burke Society of America hosted the first in its proposed series of annual academic conferences, “Fresh Perspectives on Burke Studies in Higher Education.” A distinguished group of Burke...

About the Edmund Burke Society

by | Oct 28, 2012

Committee President: Dr. Elizabeth R. Lambert Director: Dr. Ian Crowe Secretary: Dr. Steven P. Millies Treasurer: Dr. Jeffrey O. Nelson President Emeritus: Dr. Joseph L. Pappin III Reports A report from our inaugural May 2002 conference, “Fresh Perspectives on...

Kirk’s Ghostly Tales

by | Oct 28, 2012

Jeffrey D. Pearce recently guest edited two “lib guides”—thematic lists of reading resources—for the library of Everett Community College in Everett, Washington. In “Ghostly Sightings…And Other Scary Stories…”, Pearce links to Russell Kirk’s short story...

Glory and Indignity

by | Oct 21, 2012

John Randolph of Roanoke by David Johnson. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2012 Cloth, 352 pages, $45. “I am an aristocrat. I love liberty, I hate equality.” Thus spoke John Randolph of Roanoke (1773–1833), one of the most curious, animated figures ever...

Sir Henry Sumner Maine on Democracy

by | Oct 21, 2012

Popular Government, by Henry Sumner Maine. Introduction by George W. Carey. Indianapolis: Liberty Classics [1885, 1976] [free online PDF edition at Liberty Fund]. It has been a good many years since the democratic political system, and all the principles upon which it...

Welcome to the Edmund Burke Society

by | Oct 20, 2012

Welcome to the website of the Edmund Burke Society of America. Here you will find information about the society and its schedule, access to the society’s journal, Studies in Burke and His Time, extracts from our former newsletter Reflections, together with scholarly...

Faith and Twelve Presidents

by | Oct 14, 2012

The Faiths of the Postwar Presidents: From Truman to Obama by David L. Holmes. University of Georgia Press, 2012 296 pages, $30.Since the founding of the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies in the early seventeenth century, religion has powerfully affected...

History Resurgent

by | Oct 14, 2012

Historical Consciousness, or The Remembered Past by John Lukacs. New York: Harper & Row, 1968. [Rev ed. Transaction 1994, 411 pages.] “You couldn’t be more right,” is the warm affirmation of an amiable friend of mine that I would like to apply to this book. Dr....

Enoch Powell—Right from the start?

by | Oct 7, 2012

Enoch at 100 Edited by Greville Howard. London: Biteback, 2012, hardback, 320pp., £25. A century after his birth, the self-described “Tory anarchist” John Enoch Powell is still capable of arousing devotion or detestation. After his death in 1998, a major memorial...

Rediscovering a Neglected Conservative Mind

by | Oct 7, 2012

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, by James Fitzjames Stephen. Edited by Stuart D. Warner. Liberty Fund, Inc., 1993 xxix + 270 pp., $19.50 cloth; $7.50, paper. Although proclaimed by Sir Ernest Barker as “the finest exposition of conservative thought in the later half of...