The Urbanity of Russell Kirk
The following was given by James Panero at the Fourth Annual Gerald Russello Memorial Lecture on December 8, 2025, in New York City. E.B. White famously declared that “No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.” Tonight, I feel such luck...
Robert Nisbet’s The Social Philosophers Revisited: Conservative Pluralism versus the Mania for Unity
The Social Philosophers: Community and Conflict in Western Thought By Robert Nisbet, with a new Foreword by Luke C. Sheahan. American Philosophical Society Press, 1973/2025. Paperback, 440 pages, $26.95. Reviewed by Daniel J. Mahoney. Robert Nisbet was one of the most...
The Social Philosophers: A Reading for the Present
The Social Philosophers: Community and Conflict in Western Thought By Robert Nisbet, with a new Foreword by Luke C. Sheahan. American Philosophical Society Press, 1973/2025. Paperback, 440 pages, $26.95. Reviewed by Lucía Vallejo Rodríguez. On June 3, 1973, in a...
A Sociology of the Permanent Things: Nisbet’s Tocquevillian Philosophy
The Social Philosophers: Community and Conflict in Western Thought By Robert Nisbet, with a new Foreword by Luke C. Sheahan. American Philosophical Society Press, 1973/2025. Paperback, 440 pages, $26.95. Reviewed by Michael Lucchese. Academia is hardly considered a...
"Delsol’s analysis stands out for the breadth of its perspective. Her essay covers topics as varied as corporatism, the French love for status and strikes, immigration, religion and secularism, populism and the role of intellectuals, Jacobinism, and the EU..."