Cracking the Code to Civilization
The Code of Man: Love, Courage, Pride, Family, Country (2nd Edition) By Waller R. Newell. Independently Published, 2025. Paperback, 240 pages, $14.99. Reviewed by Clifford Angell Bates, Jr. Waller R. Newell’s The Code of Man: Love, Courage, Pride, Family, Country (2nd...
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...
"If classical teachers believe that truth, beauty, and goodness can indeed change the world, then the sort of student (and teacher and school) described by Esolen is a net gain for this world. And his Classical Catechism serves as a helpful tool in building the necessary common