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The Law for Man and the Law for Thing: The Political Theory of Cormac McCarthy
“McCarthy’s portrayal of moral responsibility is better understood from the perspective of the early-twentieth-century literary critic Irving Babbitt…”
As Likely to End the World as to Save It: Knowledge and Science in Cormac McCarthy
“Man’s pursuit of knowledge and his use of that knowledge to modify and mar the earth and to harm other men is a fairly constant theme in McCarthy’s oeuvre.”
Learning from the Habsburg Mystique
“In these evocative tales we see the goal toward which all seven rules are directed: to love, honor, and serve God in this life so that we may be happy forever with Him in the next.”
The Catholic Enlightenment
“Stuart’s work reminds us that the greatest enemy of the Faith is its abuse by those who profess it.”
Tory Violence and Liberal Weakness: An Appreciation of George Dangerfield’s The Strange Death of Liberal England
“Dangerfield’s portrait of those critical years before World War I is not a full scale scholarly investigation of the dramatic events of the issues that divided England but is rather an imaginative impressionistic portrait of the period…”
Will Blowing Up the Universities Really Work?
“Increasingly, a long and seemingly irrelevant college education… must seem like a paper belt.”
A Modern Dostoevsky–Almost
“Knausgaard’s latest novel… is perhaps the closest we can hope to come to Dostoevsky this side of nineteenth century Russia.”
Kirk and Del Noce: Two Philosophers Connected through History
“The connections between Del Noce and Kirk provide fresh insights to wade through today’s cultural, philosophical, and political upheavals.”
Liberal Education in the Progressive University
“In opposition to much of the postmodern academy, Drees puts forward the quest for objective knowledge as the standard for responsible scholarship.”
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition. Click on the icon in the upper right corner of the video to see more episodes in this series or check out our YouTube page.
This is good. I’d like to see a follow up piece on Wood’s The American Revolution and on Power & Liberty. Also, maybe some comment on the essay in The Idea of America that walks back the claim in Creation that 1789 marked the end of classical
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“Anton’s book, and his entire worldview, stand as direct challenges to elite preferences and institutions: Okay, boomer, what next?”
Quite the review of Michael Anton's book from Brad Watson in @KirkCenter's @ubookman. https://kirkcenter.org/reviews/a-man-for-all-seasons/
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