Three Mistakes the Founders Made — The Imaginative Conservative
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Without Compare: FOLKLORE by Big Big Train — Progarchy
Big Big Train, FOLKLORE (Giant Electric Pea, 2016). The band: Greg Spawton; Andy Poole; Danny Manners; David Longdon; Dave Gregory; Rachel Hall; Nick D’Virgilio; and Rikard Sjöblom. Engineered by Rob Aubrey. Tracks: Folklore; London Plane; Along the Ridgeway; Salisbury Giant; The Transit of Venus Across the Sun; Wassail; Winkie; Brooklands; and Telling the Bees. The […]
Rachel Gough’s Latest at KINDRED: Caring
Caring at every level.
SOME FRIENDS AND I went camping last weekend, and as we were setting up the canopy my friend’s forehead brushed some stinging nettles. She immediately started to feel a prickling sensation on her skin, but before 30 seconds had passed she found a fern and rubbed it on her forehead. The stinging stopped. The sickness and the cure were within inches of each other, but not everyone would have known that. Her knowledge gave her agency.
https://kindredmag.com/2016/06/01/it-starts-and-ends-with-caring/
An Ode to Great Books and a Beautiful Library — The Imaginative Conservative
Today’s offering in our Timeless Essay series affords readers the opportunity to join Will Durant and me as we contemplate bibliophilic exuberance. —W. The post An Ode to Great Books and a Beautiful Library appeared first on The Imaginative Conservative.
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Interview Re: Russell Kirk at CWR
Thank you to Mark Sullivan and Carl E. Olson.
Mention the name “Russell Kirk” to someone who describes himself as “conservative” and you are likely to get a blank look or, at best, be told, “I’ve heard the name.” (Readers of CWR may be an exception.) Granted, Kirk (1918-1994) has been dead for over 20 years and is has been over 60 years since the publication in 1953 of his masterpiece, The Conservative Mind, which made him something of a media celebrity. Still, his writings, ideas, and the intellectual tradition he represents have deep roots in the Catholic faith and address many of the unique features and challenges of being American, and so are worth studying.
Dr. Bradley Birzer, the Russell Amos Kirk Chair in American Studies and professor at Hillsdale College, is the author of a new biography, titled Russell Kirk: American Conservative. (University of Kentucky Press, 2015). It is a very good and timely introduction to Kirk, drawing on Birzer’s access to hundreds of unpublished letters and articles by Kirk. To give readers unfamiliar with Kirk a bit of an introduction, I asked Dr. Birzer to comment on a few passages from The Conservative Mind (Seventh Edition) during our interview.
http://www.catholicworldreport.com/Blog/4809/rediscovering_russell_kirk.aspx
Voting Libertarian: The 2016 Presidential Election
Borrowed from peacethroughliberty.wordpress.com
After much painful and gut-wretching wrestling with myself that summer and fall, I voted for Mitt Romney in 2012. It’s one of the few things in my life I truly regret. Only twice have I voted against my core beliefs in a presidential election: once for Bob Dole in 1996 and, again, in 2012 for Romney.
I am happy to state that since I’ve been able to vote (1988 was my first election), I voted for Ron Paul three times. Indeed, I’ve voted Libertarian in every other presidential election.
This year, I supported Rand Paul–not just as the best of a bad bunch, but as a truly good man. That obviously faded.
Now that we’re basically down to Clinton for the Democrats; Trump for the Republicans; and Johnson for the Libertarians, I will be throwing what very little weight I carry (if any–it’s possibly negative) for Gary Johnson. There are lots of things about him that I would change (especially his views on abortion), and I’m sorry he’s so taken with pot, but he’s not evil. In fact, I get the feeling he’s a really good guy.
So, unless it comes out that he’s a devil worshiper or something equally evil, he has my vote.
Marriage and That Hideous Strength
C.S. Lewis’s greatest.
Still, as we’ve come—sometimes slowly and sometimes quickly—to realize just how dead marriage is as an institution, we’ve—in our confusion and bewilderment and shock—tried to assign blame, to find a scapegoat. There is none. The trouble is not the law, but the will and the attitude and the mores and the norms and the beliefs of all of us. The failure of marriage is a failure of will and of nerve, a failure of civilization. Still, we keeping hoping to assign blame. And, yet, what do we know? Black people didn’t do it. Gays didn’t do it. Jews didn’t do it. Catholics didn’t do it. 6’5’’ Asian women didn’t do it. Promethean Engineers didn’t do it. Jesus didn’t do it. And, the devil didn’t do it. We can’t even blame Buddha or Mohammed or Grishna or Osiris or Freya.
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soundstreamsunday: “Sing Sing Sing” by Benny Goodman — Progarchy
The Benny Goodman Orchestra’s performance at Carnegie Hall in January 1938 has a place in history as the coming out party for jazz, a legitimizing of an art form within the fortress of American (read: white/European) highbrow music. Ripe for irony? Yes. But when we recall this was the era of “race” records, and that jazz […]
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Time and Tide Waits for No Band: BBT’s FOLKLORE
My thoughts–for what they are worth–on Big Big Train’s latest album. Excellent, overall, but not the band’s best.
Ronald Reagan’s Ten Words that Changed the World — The Imaginative Conservative
The West will not contain communism; it will transcend communism. For two full minutes on May 17, 1981, the attendees of the The post Ronald Reagan’s Ten Words that Changed the World appeared first on The Imaginative Conservative.
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