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Stubborn Myths
Those Terrible Middle Ages! Debunking the Myths, by Régine Pernoud, translated by Anne Englund Nash. Ignatius Press (San Francisco, California) 179 pp., $12.95 paper, 2001. We have all more or less been formed by the grand narrative of the Enlightenment. In...
Henrie on Kirk
Kirk was convinced that in our age, the unimagined life is not worth living for a human being. He labored to reform our sensibilities, so that we could see ourselves both for what we are and for what we have become. He labored to make available an intellectual...
Kirk on Types of Imagination
Imagination it is that shapes society—moral imagination, or idyllic imagination, or diabolic imagination.
Kirk on Eliot on PT
By 'the Permanent Things' [T. S. Eliot] meant those elements in the human condition that give us our nature, without which we are as the beasts that perish. They work upon us all in the sense that both they and we are bound up in that continuity of belief and...
Kirk on Progress
Real progress consists in the movement of mankind toward the understanding of norms, and toward conformity to norms. Real decadence consists in the movement of mankind away from the understanding of norms, and away from obedience to norms.
Books in Little
A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America, John J. Miller (Encounter Books, 241 pp. $25.95). As American conservatism matures, and its histories are written, the entities and individuals that made its rise and influence possible have begun to...
On Russian Conservatism
Russian Conservatism and Its Critics: A Study in Political Culture by Richard Pipes. Yale University Press (New Haven, Connecticut), 216 pp., $30.00 cloth, 2006. Constructing a sustainable political order has been the fundamental challenge for Russia since the Soviet...
American Conservative
Political Philosophy and Cultural Renewal: Collected Essays by Francis Graham Wilson, edited by H. Lee Cheek, Jr., M. Susan Power, and Kathy B. Cheek. Transaction Publishers (New Brunswick, New Jersey) 263 pp., $49.95 cloth, 2001. It has been argued, perhaps most...
Looking Behind the Mask
Masquerade by Joseph S. Salemi. Pivot Press (Expansive Poetry Online Bookstore), 84 pp., $12.00 paper, 2005. It is an act of courage to publish such a collection as Masquerade in the face of today’s feckless critics and the mindless gruel that most call poetry....
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A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.
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