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...
Wielding Weighty Words to Salvage the World
The Fortunes of Permanence: Culture and Anarchy in an Age of Amnesia By Roger Kimball. St. Augustine’s Press, 2022. Paperback, 360 pages, $26.00. Reviewed by David Hein. Not unlike a prime Bordeaux, this collection of essays, originally published in hardcover in...
Our critic’s pick: “On America: How to Understand the Legacy of 1776,” by Russell Kirk (Creed & Culture). @C_and_C_Books @JamesPanero
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