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Reviewing Books that Build Culture
Russell Kirk vs. Fusionism: A Conflict in Name Only?
“Kirk called ideology the ‘negation of prudence’ and the ‘foe of imagination.’ Both prudence and imagination are key ideas in Kirk’s political thought. For him, prudence is the preeminent political virtue, and all good politics is inspired by the moral imagination.”
Restoring the True and the Beautiful
“…Klavan offers just the right prescription to postmoderns emerging from scientific materialism—and eager to be told what their stories mean.”
Nihilism as Public Policy
“The difference between nihilism as a private response to life’s contingencies and its sinister manifestation as public policy, Houellebecq aptly points out, is that the latter demands that nihilism become institutionalized.”
Paul Johnson (1937-2023): A Valediction
M. D. Aeschliman remembers the British historian Paul Johnson.
Apocalyptic Hope?
“…Hart teases out the distinction between tradition and traditionalism in a book that is thought-provoking and rewarding even where one disagrees with him.”
In Dialogue, We Dwell
“…political sentiment in America has atrophied to ‘factionalism,’ or precisely that against which James Madison warned in Federalist No. 10…”
Shakespeare and the Real
“…Shakespeare has indeed become, like the body of Patroclus, the center of one of the most violent skirmishes in the larger battle that rages over the gargantuan remains of the West.”
Can We Trust the Gospels?
“…McGrew contends not only that there is strong external evidence for the God of the New Testament… but that there is also good internal evidence—the information conveyed in the biblical accounts corresponds to what we know about the way truthful people talk and write.”
Betting on Catastrophe
“…who better than The New Criterion’s bench of deep thinkers to mull over James Burnham’s hypothesis—’Suicide is probably more frequent than murder as the end phase of a civilization’—with respect to Christendom’s funereal prospects.”
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