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Reviewing Books that Build Culture
Citizens of the World
Casey Chalk argues that a new generation of globetrotting American idealists should re-read The Sand Pebbles.
The Revolution That Did Not End in Blood
JP O’Malley interviews historian Antonia Fraser about her recent book on Catholic emancipation in the UK.
Christian Martyrs in the First Islamic States
Jane Peters reviews a book on Christians martyred during the first two centuries of the rise of Islam.
His Old Kentucky Home
Miles Smith welcomes a helpful new political biography of five-time Presidential candidate Henry Clay.
Orpheus Britannicus
R. J. Stove is relieved to welcome Tim Rayborn’s new volume correcting the historical treatment of twentieth-century British music and the English Musical Renaissance.
Percy and the Persistence of Alienation
Emina Melonic reviews a book that finds political application in Walker Percy’s concept of the wayfarer.
When Democracy Came, It Came in a Flurry
John Bicknell reviews a book that fills in our understanding of the new style of presidential campaigning that emerged in the Jacksonian era.
A Desire to Win Well
Daniel N. Gullotta reviews a new study on honor during the time of the American Revolution.
Your Political Opponent Might Be Human
Anthony M. Barr reviews philosopher Martha Nussbaum’s foray into the angry seas of American politics.
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.
Here, Kirk references with approval MacIntryre's argument from "After Virtue" on the need for "communities of character."
At the passing of the great Alasdair MacIntyre, one would do well to return to Russell Kirk' s classic essay "Civilization without Religion?" https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2011/04/russell-kirk-civilization-without-religion.html
At the passing of the great Alasdair MacIntyre, one would do well to return to Russell Kirk' s classic essay "Civilization without Religion?"
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