Poet on a Volcano
Horace: Poet on a Volcano By Peter Stothard. Yale University Press, 2025. Hardcover. 288 pages. $28. Reviewed by Nadya Williams. Once upon a time, a middle-aged poet climbed up to the top of the Sicilian volcano Mount Etna. He gazed a while with longing and rising...
Alasdair MacIntyre: Philosopher of the Ages
Edith Stein: A Philosophical Prologue, 1913-1922 Rowman & Littlefield (Lanham, Md.) 208 pp., $33.00 cloth, 2005 The Tasks of Philosophy: Selected Essays, Vol. 1 Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, U.K.) 244 pp., $70.00 cloth, 2006 Ethics and Politics: Selected...
The Winding Road that Alasdair MacIntyre Has Traveled
Alasdair MacIntyre: An Intellectual Biography By Émile Perreau-Saussine. Translated by Nathan J. Pinkoski. University of Notre Dame Press, 2022. Hardcover, 216 pages, $40.00. Reviewed by Rev. Joseph Scolaro. Editor’s Note: At the passing of the great Alasdair...
Conservative Thought from Burke to Eliot
Conservative Thought from Burke to Eliot Class Time:Dates:Credits: Faculty: DescriptionThis course traces the development of conservative thought in the Anglo-American tradition, providing special attention to the ideas and importance of Edmund Burke. Emerging from...
Conservative Thought in America After World War II
Conservative Thought in America After World War II Class Time:Dates:Credits: Faculty: DescriptionThis course examines the conservative intellectual tradition in America from 1945 to the present. It explores the American conservative renaissance and the foremost...
The Historical Roots of American Order
The Historical Roots of American Order Class Time:Dates:Credits: Faculty: DescriptionThis course explores the historical roots of the American tradition and considers how the American Revolution did not represent a radical break from Western civilization. It traces...
Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left
Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left Class Time:Dates:Credits: Faculty: DescriptionThis course explores the roots of the great Right-Left political divide that emerged as part of an eighteenth-century debate between two formidable intellectual...
Russell Kirk, T.S. Eliot, and the Moral Imagination
Russell Kirk, T.S. Eliot, and the Moral Imagination Class Time:Dates:Credits: Faculty: DescriptionFirst used in Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France, the term “moral imagination” is an essential concept in modern conservative thought. This phrase,...
Seminar at Piety Hill for Certificate Students
Seminar at Piety Hill for Certificate Students Class Time: Dates: Faculty: DescriptionFor more than fifty years, thousands of students and dozens of distinguished lecturers have participated in Seminars at Piety Hill, the ancestral home of Russell Kirk. Importantly,...
A Christmas Carol is great literature. Ghosts are a must for Christmas.