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Reviewing Books that Build Culture
Why Public Reason Fails
“It is only at a local level that true political deliberation among citizens can take place. Holston’s central message is that, if deliberative democrats are serious about their enterprise, they ought to be working to devolve decision making to the local level as far as possible.”
Friends, Countrymen, Romans
“…America has been many things, but, in a certain sense, it has always been Roman.”
Counting the Costs of the Second Great War
“…April 1945 was especially critical in my combat service in the European conflict in World War II.”
Philosophy and the Meaningful Life
“As Augustine realized, it is not enough to merely know the good, the true and the beautiful. We must lead our lives in conformity with them.”
Why Beauty Matters
“…the cultivation of beauty is an education in itself, a discipline that must be practiced in daily life.”
Christian Freedom and the Western Political Tradition
“For Schindler, there is no tradition without freedom, and no freedom without tradition. These ideas are a precious heritage to be guarded with great care, because they are a gift of the wise born before the present and the God who inspired their wisdom.”
The Spiritualist Origins of Modern Disorder
“…the dominant characteristic of the new spirituality was the inflation, as egregious as it was absurd, of thought, of language, and of self: every man (or woman) a prophet, every man his own priest, every man a genius, each dedicated to what Dominic Green calls ‘the aristocrat within.’”
Politics Awaiting the City of God: James Schall, S.J. on The Nature of Political Philosophy
“This volume collects essays where Schall has reflected on questions of political philosophy that were at the very heart of his vocation as a Catholic teacher.”
A Time for Restoration
“…Manent and Scruton offer affirmation that the Good is supported in the nature of things, that human beings are capable of cultivating and acting according to political reason, and that the integrity of a national community is requisite for virtue and liberty.”
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Kirk saw poetry, fiction, tradition, and restraint as essential to understanding America and preserving its character. In his review of "On America," @cjscalia explores Kirk’s vision of the founding, statesmanship, literature, and the enduring ideas that have shaped the republic.
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