Beyond Stoicism
After Stoicism: Last Words of the Last Roman Philosopher By Thomas M. Ward. Word on Fire Academic, 2024. Hardcover, 216 pages, $34.95. 365 Lessons from the Stoics By Andrea Kirk Assaf. William Collins, 2024. Hardcover, 256 pages, $19.19 Reviewed by Father Joseph...
The Russell Kirk Center Welcomes TFAS Public Policy Fellows
The Russell Kirk Center Welcomes TFAS Public Policy Fellows From October 16–18, the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal welcomed twenty Public Policy Fellows from The Fund for American Studies (TFAS) for a weekend seminar on “The Roots of American Order as the...
2025 Dick & Ethie Haworth Free Speech Fellows Announced
2025 Dick & Ethie Haworth Free Speech Fellows Announced On November 19, 2025, the Russell Kirk Center will host the Richard D. McLellan Prizes Award Gala in Washington, D.C. at the National Press Club. The event, hosted by a distinguished prizes Jury, will honor...
Aliens to Life
The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World By Christine Rosen. W.W. Norton and Co., 2024. Hardcover, 272 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by J. Camden Kidwell. Eighteen years have passed since Steve Jobs released a device capable of putting cyberspace...
The Postwar British Conservative Movement
Blue Jerusalem: British Conservatism, Winston Churchill, and the Second World War By Kit Kowol. Oxford University Press, 2024. Hardcover, 352 pages, $38.99. Reviewed by Daniel Pitt. In Benjamin Disraeli’s great novel, Lothair, Mr. Phoebus remarks, “Books are fatal;...
Leisure and the Lost Ascent
An essay on Josef Pieper’s “Leisure: The Basis of Culture” By Catherine Contonio. The modern world no longer recognizes the Greeks’ concept of leisure. The Greeks, in turn, would no longer recognize the modern notion of work, which has spread to cover the whole of...
William F. Buckley’s Cold War
The Fall of the Berlin Wall By William F. Buckley, Jr. John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2004. Hardcover, 212 pages, $19.95. Reviewed by Michael Lucchese. As conservatives mark the centenary of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s birth, one of the most-celebrated aspects of his...
Climate Realism in an Alarmed Age
Climate and Energy: The Case for Realism Edited by E. Calvin Beisner and David R. Legates. Regnery Publishing, 2024. Hardcover, 480 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by Joshua J. Bowman. Calvin Beisner and David Legates’s edited volume, Climate and Energy, seeks to bring...
Bring Back the Virtues, Medieval Style
Ask of Old Paths: Medieval Virtues and Vices for a Whole and Holy Life By Grace Hamman. Zondervan Academic, 2025. Hardcover, 224 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by Nadya Williams. A few years ago, my husband and I learned we were expecting a girl. As we were considering...
A Christmas Carol is great literature. Ghosts are a must for Christmas.