“…[Kirk] located the mainstream of the American Founding not with the Jeffersonian Republicans, but with their rivals in the Federalist party. Kirk admired them not only as practical statesmen, but also as anti-revolutionary thinkers in their own right. As he put it, the Constitution they supported was both ‘the most successful conservative device in the history of the world’ and a ‘great monument’ to the Federalists.”

Throughout the semiquincentennial year celebrating America’s independence, The University Bookman will invite a range of writers and speakers to contribute to a series drawing upon Russell Kirk’s work on the American Revolution and the constitutional order it secured.

“First published in Sweden in 1962, The Windmills of Sancho Panza combines sociological analysis of liberalism’s descent into statism with a radical critique of modern trends toward socialism, egalitarianism, and individualism—all of which, in his view, have undermined ties of subordination that once nurtured community, humility, and purposeful living.”

“Hemingway is blind to the preternatural dimension of reality. Nothing in Hemingway speaks to human expectations or answers our deepest human desires—creatures ill at ease in time and seeking the eternal. In Hemingway there is no wonder or awe toward creation.”

This review by Gerald J. Russello, late editor of The University Bookman, was originally published by Chronicles Magazine in June 2016. It is reposted with permission.