Kirk and Del Noce: Two Philosophers Connected through History
By Carolina Riva Posse. “Augusto Del Noce will be a great loss to order, freedom and justice in Italy,” wrote Russell Kirk to Mario Marcolla in March 1990, shortly after the Italian philosopher’s death. Del Noce, probably the most important Italian...
Why We Need Beauty
A Philosophy of Beauty: Shaftesbury on Nature, Virtue, and Art By Michael B. Gill. Princeton University Press, 2022. Hardcover, 248 pages, $39.95. Reviewed by Lee Trepanier. Now neglected in the Western canon, Shaftesbury’s Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions,...
Nihilism as Public Policy
Interventions 2020 By Michel Houellebecq. Translated by Andrew Brown. Polity Press, 2022. Hardcover, 314 pages, $25.00. Reviewed by Pedro Blas González. What makes Michel Houellebecq a singular writer for today is his understanding of postmodern man’s existential...
An Antidote to Today’s Malaise
A Time for Wisdom: Knowledge, Detachment, Tranquility, Transcendence By Paul T. McLaughlin and Mark R. McMinn. Templeton Press, 2022. Hardcover, 268 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by Auguste Meyrat. It is one of the great paradoxes of modernity that the more society advances...
Summer is here and the days are long. Slowing schedules allow time for many of us to sink into the queue of books that have been patiently waiting for us over the busyness of our end of spring schedules.
@lsheahan, @DavidGBonaguraJ, @darrellfalconbu
Ah, just your typical 663-page light summer beach read for a @ubookman book review. Makes Wealth of Nations look like a Substack essay.