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Campaign Progress
Political Theology for Realists
“…even those who might diverge theologically will find this work to be an extremely useful short primer on the history of Christian political thought.”
Cormac McCarthy Symposium
An Introduction to a Symposium on Cormac McCarthy
The Duty of the Craftsman: Beauty and Goodness in Cormac McCarthy
“While McCarthy cannot abide optimistic visions of the world, even his most pessimistic moments are checked by beauty and goodness.”
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.”
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.
Have you read Russell Kirk’s fiction? My dad used to joke that ppl thought there must be two different authors by the same name—one who wrote serious political tomes and the other who wrote supernatural fiction. Story offer below.
What is is like to visit the home of the traditional conservative movement in America?
@mich_enjoyer recently visited the Kirk Center in Mecosta and offers an immersive look at the grounds and ongoing programming of the @KirkCenter.
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