Removing the Judicial Mask
How Judges Think by Richard A. Posner (Harvard University Press, 2008), 387 pp, $29.95The debate over judicial nominees follows a well-worn script. Conservatives lament “activist” judges and advocate for “strict construction” of the Constitution. They are especially...Eliot Conference
The Kirk Center is co-sponsoring a conference on T. S. Eliot on August 14–16, 2008 in conjunction with the new edition of Dr. Kirk’s book, Eliot and His Age. See the conference page for details. A full schedule is now available.
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October 2009 Edward Ericson with Annette Kirk and McConnell Center director Gary Gregg at a reception at Piety Hill. A 2008 Seminar at Piety Hill Annette Kirk with an actor playing John Adamsand carrying a copy of Russell Kirk’s The Roots of American...Colson on Kirk
We were pleased to note Chuck Colson referencing Russell Kirk so warmly, and correctly noting Dr. Kirk’s rejection of ideology, in a commentary from June 6, 2008 titled “True Conservatism.”Defending the Conversation
In the newest of the Bookman’s web-only content, James Seaton reviews Anthony Kronman’s stirring defense of a traditional liberal-arts education. Click here for the review!A Stirring Defense of the Conversation
Education’s End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life by Anthony T. Kronman. Yale University Press (New Haven), 320 pages, hardcover, $27.50; 2007 In the decades since The Closing of the American Mind became a bestseller, many critics...Kirk on Eliot
A new edition of Dr. Kirk’s acclaimed literary biography, Eliot and His Age: T. S. Eliot’s Moral Imagination in the Twentieth Century is being published in July 2008 by ISI Books.Art, Culture, and Religion
A Conference on T. S. Eliot Co-Sponsors Grand Valley State University (Grand Rapids, Michigan)and The Russell Kirk Center (Mecosta, Michigan) Dates: August 14–16, 2008. Sessions on Aug. 14 (beginning at 1:00 p.m.) and Aug. 15 will be at Grand Valley State University....From National Executive to Therapist-in-Chief
The Evolution of the Modern Presidency: An Interview with Gene HealyThe University Bookman is pleased to offer this exclusive interview with Gene Healy, a senior editor at the Cato Institute. A widely-published writer on the modern executive, he has just published The...
Decades ago, Robert Nisbet anticipated many of today’s concerns about loneliness, bureaucracy, and declining community. Luke C. Sheahan (@lsheahan) revisits the ideas behind those warnings and their relevance today.
Questions about first principles have become fashionable again. @HorcherF and @DanJTPitt apply generosity to smooth contention between intellectuals and politicians, they embrace the tension between theory and practice, and they highlight the power of particularity as a source of