George H. Nash George H. Nash was born in Holyoke, Massachusetts. After graduating from South Hadley High School as valedictorian of the Class of 1963, he entered Amherst College, where he graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, in 1967. He received his...
Marco Respinti is a Milan-based journalist, essayist, translator, and lecturer. A scholar of Anglo-American conservative thought, he contributes to daily national newspapers such as Libero, Il Foglio, Cronache di liberal, Il Tempo, and l’Occidentale, Ragionpolitica,...
Gleaves Whitney Gleaves Whitney is executive director of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation, which fosters increased awareness of the life, career, values, and legacy of America’s 38th President. Gleaves was director of the Hauenstein Center for Presidential...
Ian Crowe Ian Crowe is director of the Edmund Burke Society of America. He is currently an associate professor of History at Belmont Abbey College and executive editor of the journal Studies in Burke and His Time.Ian’s research interest is the career and writings of...
Bruce P. Frohnen Bruce P. Frohnen is Ella and Ernest Fisher Professor of Law at Ohio Northern University College of Law. He has served as Charles Evans Hughes Professor of Jurisprudence at Colgate University, Thomas Bahnson and Anne Bassett Stanley Professor of Ethics...
Vigen Guroian Vigen Guroian most recently was Professor of Religious Studies in Orthodox Christianity at the University of Virginia. He has been a recipient of the University of Virginia Student Council Distinguished Teacher Award.Dr. Guroian received his B.A. from...
The Accusation: Forbidden Stories from Inside North Korea by Bandi, translated by Deborah Smith. Grove Press, 2017. Hardcover, 256 pages, $25.Though they be dry as a desert And rough as a grassland Shabby as an invalid And primitive as stone tools Reader! I beg you to...
We recently updated our page tracking people’s responses to the life and thought of Russell Kirk. In 2015, then-Governor Mike Pence noted that he hasn’t “taken a vacation in the last 25 years without a Russell Kirk book under my arm.” Seems like a good idea. (If...
The Edmund Burke Society of America announces a new issue of their journal, Studies in Burke and His Time. Volume 26 (2016–2017) features papers from a 2016 conference marking the completion of the Oxford University Press edition of Burke’s Writings and Speeches. The...
From Warm Center to Ragged Edge: The Erosion of Midwestern Literary and Historical Regionalism, 1920–1965 by Jon K. Lauck. University of Iowa Press, 2017. Paperback, 246 pages, $27.50.No single person has done more to revitalize the study of the Midwest than Jon...
Localism, American-style
“Chuck” Chalberg on "Localism: Coming Home to Catholic Social Teaching," edited by Dale Ahlquist and Michael Warren Davis.
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