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. ...
The Conservative Mind at 60: Russell Kirk’s Unwritten Constitutionalism
By Gerald Russello. In honor of The University Bookman’s long time editor Gerald Russello, who passed away a year ago this month, we are running Russello’s classic anniversary essay on Russell Kirk’s The Conservative Mind. The essay first appeared at Law and Liberty,...
The Mysterious Being in the Ring
In the House of Tom Bombadil C.R. Wiley. Canon Press, 2021. Paper, 128 pages, $16.95. Reviewed by Nathanael Blake. Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow, but what is the point of him? He is one of the most enigmatic characters in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings,...Planting
Only a man who remembers his debt to his ancestors is likely to plant for posterity. —Russell Kirk
More than Regime Change, We Need a New Cosmological Vision