Traditional Conservatism and Classical Liberalism (Section 2)
Traditional Conservatism and Classical Liberalism (Section 2) Meet the Instructors:Luke C. Sheahan is associate professor of political science at Duquesne University, a senior affiliate in the Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society (PRRUCS) at the...
France and the Problem of Abstraction
Prosperity and Torment in France: The Paradox of the Democratic Age By Chantal Delsol. University of Notre Dame Press, 2025. Hardcover, 154 pages, $30. Reviewed by Godefroy Desjonquères. Reading Chantal Delsol’s Prosperity and Torment in France as a French person is a...
Humane Literature and the Divided Soul
The Divided Soul: Duty and Desire in Literature and Life By Heidi White. Goldberry, 2025. Hardcover, 238 pages. $29.00. Reviewed by Gary Hartenburg. Heidi White’s debut book, The Divided Soul: Duty and Desire in Literature and Life, unites a memoir in fragments with a...
Antisemitism, a Foreign Tradition
Antisemitism, an American Tradition By Pamela S. Nadell. W. W. Norton, 2025. Hardcover, 352 Pages, $31.99. Reviewed by Elan Kluger. Every political movement has a philosophy of history and recent American politics has offered quite the olio. Barack Obama’s “Hope” was...
Traditional Conservatism and Classical Liberalism (Section 1)
Traditional Conservatism and Classical Liberalism (Section 1) Meet the Instructors:Luke C. Sheahan is associate professor of political science at Duquesne University, a senior affiliate in the Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society (PRRUCS) at the...
Russell Kirk and the Conservative Mind
Russell Kirk and the Conservative Mind Dr. Michael P. Federici is a Senior Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center. He is also Professor and former Chair of the Department of Political Science and Global Affairs at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU), where he...
The Perennial Edmund Burke
The Perennial Edmund Burke Gregory Collins, Ph.D.Lecturer in the Program on Ethics, Politics, and Economics and Department of Political Science at Yale University Time: Tuesdays, 7:00 – 8:30 pm ETDates: March 3, 11, 17, 24Faculty: Dr. Gregory CollinsLocation:...
The Urbanity of Russell Kirk
The following was given by James Panero at the Fourth Annual Gerald Russello Memorial Lecture on December 8, 2025, in New York City. E.B. White famously declared that “No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.” Tonight, I feel such luck...
Buckley and Edwards: The Titan of Conservatism and His Titan of a Biographer
William F. Buckley Jr.: The Maker of a Movement By Lee Edwards. ISI Books, 2010/2019. Paperback, 224 pages, $16.95. Reviewed by Nicholas Mosvick. Last December, the venerable scholar of the conservative movement and the human force behind the Victims of Communism...
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