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Reviewing Books that Build Culture
Richard Weaver Explained Our Cultural Predicament Over 70 Years Ago
“The past shows unvaryingly that when a people’s freedom disappears, it goes not with a bang, but in silence amid the comfort of being cared for. That is the dire peril in the present trend toward statism.” – Richard Weaver
The Traditions That Gave Us Homer
“Parry… ultimately became the most influential Classical—and perhaps literary—scholar of the twentieth-century precisely because he was able to side-step the Homeric Question altogether.”
Whose Truth? Whose Power?
“David Lowenthal finds something new to say about Orwell,,,”
Two Tales of Watergate
“To commemorate the fifty year mark we now have not one, but two, new books to add to the ever-mounting bibliography of Watergate-related tomes.”
These Roman Things
“As Jones struggled with his ‘technolatrous’ age, he took ancient Rome as a lodestar for navigating ‘this distressful epoch.'”
All That’s Left is This Foundation Stone
“…these poems provoke us to return and reclaim our prodigal inheritance.”
Where Conservatives Converse
“It has been nearly sixty years since the founding of the Philadelphia… and its growth and development over the years as an intellectual home for all conservatives who accepted the premise of ordered liberty, is a testimony to the founders and those who have long carried on the legacy of the Society and its principles.”
Whether the Heart Has Its Reasons of Which It Knows Nothing
Daniel James Sundahl reviews Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment
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On the Need for Property and Virtue
“The decentralized constitutional republic created in the late eighteenth century has evolved into a centralized oligarchy that is at a critical turning point.”
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