Squeezing Out Virtue and Beauty
Centers for Teaching and Learning: The New Landscape in Higher Education By Mary C. Wright. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023. Hardcover, 296 pages, $39.95. Reviewed by Lee Trepanier. The most recent permanent fixtures on college campuses are Centers of Teaching...
Russell Kirk’s Book of Love
By Daniel McCarthy. Conservatism is a philosophy of love, which perhaps explains why it is so little understood in our time. Half a millennium ago Niccolò Machiavelli weighed whether it is better to be loved or feared. Those emotions—unlike their counterparts hate and...
Conservatives’ Cornerstone
By Dr. Kevin Roberts. The Conservative Mind by Russell Kirk is the most important book about conservatism ever written. Prior to Kirk’s masterwork, there was not an organized conservative movement in the United States; within months of its publication, there was. ...
Russell Kirk and The Conservative Mind
By Dr. George H. Nash. In May 1953, an obscure university professor in Michigan named Russell Kirk published his doctoral dissertation under the title The Conservative Mind. To the surprise of nearly everyone, it was an instant success. It received more than one...
The Conservative Mind at 70
By Roger Kimball. An ignorant man, who is not fool enough to meddle with his clock, is however sufficiently confident to think he can safely take to pieces, and put together at his pleasure, a moral machine of another guise, importance, and complexity, composed of far...
Why is free speech an indispensable right?
On Tuesday, November 19 at 7:00 p.m., join @ubookman Editor @lsheahan and @JonathanTurley to discuss the history and philosophy of free speech.
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Just released: Late @ubookman editor Gerald Russello's selected works by @clunymedia. 78 essays on conservatism, Catholicism, law, humanities, Latin, & culture from 23 outlets: @NRO, @firstthingsmag, @newcriterion, @ModAgeJournal, @chroniclesmag, & more!