Russell Kirk and The Conservative Mind
By Dr. George H. Nash. In May 1953, an obscure university professor in Michigan named Russell Kirk published his doctoral dissertation under the title The Conservative Mind. To the surprise of nearly everyone, it was an instant success. It received more than one...
The Conservative Mind at 70
By Roger Kimball. An ignorant man, who is not fool enough to meddle with his clock, is however sufficiently confident to think he can safely take to pieces, and put together at his pleasure, a moral machine of another guise, importance, and complexity, composed of far...
Two Cities: The Public and the Private
A reflection on Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities By Igor Damous. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every...
Paths of Protestant Social Thought
Protestant Social Teaching: An Introduction Edited by Onsi Aaron Kamel, Jake Meador, and Joseph Minich. The Davenant Press, 2022. Paperback, 270 pages, $26.95. Reviewed by Joshua Bowman. One of the greatest dangers to the vitality and orthodoxy of Protestant...
Barry Cooper's review of THE GROWTH OF THE LIBERAL SOUL is available on the @ubookman page at: https://kirkcenter.org/reviews/after-ideology-but-before-the-revolution-the-liberal-soul/
I'm pleased to see the University Bookman running a small symposium on a new book (or a new edition of an old book) by David Walsh, whose work remains essential amidst debates over liberalism. Personally, Walsh's influence has kept me from going full post-liberal.