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The Wolfe Who Cried Kirk

In the pages of the once-respectable New Republic, Alan Wolfe has written a scurrilous attack on Russell Kirk in the guise of a review of the recently published collection entitled The Essential Russell Kirk. The review is noteworthy not for its ugliness or completely...

Tiber, Thames, Potomac

That the First Amendment establishes a “separation” between church and state throughout all levels of government has long been a stubborn myth of American life, shared by both nativists and, at least since the early part of the last century, most liberals. Philip...

Awakening the Moral Imagination

Fall 1999 If the events of the past year have demonstrated anything it is the moral and intellectual impoverishment of the American people. From Monica to Littleton the tragic consequences of this fact have been played out on a dizzying scale. Sadly, the road back...

Edwards: From the Beginning of the Right

Just Right: A Life in Pursuit of Liberty By Lee Edwards. ISI Books, 2017. Hardcover, 378 pages, $29.95. Reviewed by George H. Nash. In his lively new memoir Just Right, Lee Edwards remarks that four distinct groups have molded the modern American conservative...

Must Matters of Taste Not Be Disputed?

“Art is beautiful in revealing the truth of man to himself such that he grows in knowledge of the good and the true through the encounter.”

Seeing the True Presence

“…Heschmeyer examines the Eucharist in its Biblical, theological, philosophical, and historical contexts. ‘Sometimes,’ he notes, ‘to increase our understanding, we don’t need new information but a new way of thinking about the information that we already have.’”

Edwards: From the Beginning of the Right

Edwards: From the Beginning of the Right

Just Right: A Life in Pursuit of Liberty By Lee Edwards. ISI Books, 2017. Hardcover, 378 pages, $29.95. Reviewed by George H. Nash. In his lively new memoir Just Right, Lee Edwards remarks that four distinct groups have molded the modern American conservative...

Seeing the True Presence

Seeing the True Presence

“…Heschmeyer examines the Eucharist in its Biblical, theological, philosophical, and historical contexts. ‘Sometimes,’ he notes, ‘to increase our understanding, we don’t need new information but a new way of thinking about the information that we already have.’”

Home, Sour Home

Home, Sour Home

“Beckeld finds oikophobia not only in the present-day United States but also across the West and in ancient Greece and Rome, eighteenth-century France, and twentieth-century Great Britain. Oikophobia’s onset is significant because it has weakened the places in which it appeared.”

Lincoln and the Democratic Cause

Lincoln and the Democratic Cause

“Professor Guelzo is prescient… in offering Lincoln’s contemplations on the meaning and purpose of the Civil War, including the possibility that the war was a providential necessity preceding an outcome, emancipation, and largely because race and slavery are central to Lincoln’s history as a great evil, our country’s original sin, and anathema to our democracy. “

JP O’Malley Interviews Author Frank Tallis

JP O’Malley Interviews Author Frank Tallis

“…is it possible to embrace Freud’s core ideas while also remaining critical of him? Tallis believes so. He claims Freud ‘was unquestionably a great writer, but he is often contradictory, and his ideas are generally not original.'”

Finding the Historical Vergil

Finding the Historical Vergil

“Sarah Ruden… takes a step back to remove Vergil from the constraints of later mythmaking and find the historical poet… As Ruden writes, ‘As always, there has to be something about the author himself that is vital to the thing called literary achievement.’”

America First—Or Last?

America First—Or Last?

“Paul Hollander, wherever he is, need not worry. The best book by far on an American romance with foreign dictators has long been–and remains–his Political Pilgrims.

The Book Gallery

A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.

Home, Sour Home---Daniel Fischer reviews "Western Self-Contempt: Oikophobia in the Decline of Civilizations" by @BenedictBeckeld Northern Illinois University Press
https://kirkcenter.org/reviews/home-sour-home/

.@jp_omalley Interviews Author @FrankTallis on his recent book: "Mortal Secrets: Freud, Vienna, and the Discovery of the Modern Mind" @stmartinspress
https://kirkcenter.org/reviews/jp-omalley-interviews-author-frank-tallis/

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