“And you’re by yourself?”
I look at the park ranger.
“Yes,” I say. “I’m by myself.”
This is the third time she’s asked in, oh, five minutes. I see her raise her eyebrows, shake her head.
“It’s going to be a cold night,” she says.
“I know,” I say.
She hands me a parking pass. Is it incredulity I see on her face? Or am I simply projecting my own self doubt? Do I really believe I can make it a night alone in the woods?
Speaking up is costly — Kindred
One of the most painful experiences of high school came at the hands of my friends. The four of us—two boys and two girls—spent the hot Phoenix summer before junior year together doing nearly grown up things: Eating lunch at The Olive Garden and driving home through the desert at night listening to Matchbox 20 […]
The car that saved my life — elizabeth hamilton
A year ago today, I posted an essay about a car accident that I should not have walked away from. I try not to talk about the accident too much because I don’t want to be that girl who’s always talking about her near-death experience. But the truth is, I think about it fairly often. I think about what […]
Over at TIC: A Dialogue about Gulf War I
Screenshot from The Imaginative Conservative
An Imaginative Conservative Dialogue.
The grand Adam Fuller and I discuss Kirk, Bush, and Gulf War I.
Fundraiser: THE CONSERVATIVE MIND in Turkish
Dear Alumni: I have never come to you asking for money, but I want to tell you about an exciting development in our longstanding connection with Turkey. There is a group of dedicated conservative intellectuals in Turkey who have been translating and publishing classic texts in the history of Western conservatism. They publish a regular journal of conservative thought and recently completed the first translation ever into Turkish of Burke’s Reflections. Now, the group is undertaking the first translation into Turkish of Russell Kirk’s The Conservative Mind.
I have undertaken responsibility to raise the funds necessary to secure the copyright permissions from Regnery. This is not an official program of Hillsdale College. Rather, it is a way for honors students, alumni, faculty, and friends to help turn an important idea into reality. At the same time, we can show our gratitude to Annette Kirk by working through the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal.
Those of you with experience in fundraising know that it is important for Mrs. Kirk to be able to show evidence of a broad base of donors. The amount you give matters less than the fact that you give. Even the smallest donation will have a great impact.
If you are able to help, you can make out a check to “The Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal” and send it to me at my home address: 65 South Howell Street, Hillsdale, MI, 49242.
Your donation is tax deductible.
Our goal is to raise $1,200 and I have personally guaranteed that amount. As you may imagine, this offer has stirred tremendous excitement among our intellectual colleagues in Turkey.
Any money raised above $1,200 will go to the work of the Kirk Center.
I plan to meet with the Turkish group’s leadership when I am in the country next month. We have met before, and I can assure you that these are men and women of integrity who are doing important work.
–Richard Gamble, Professor of History, Hillsdale College
Fieldwork: Alan Lomax online
When Alan Lomax initially envisioned his freely available Global Jukebox, a project that would bring together the recordings of vernacular music and stories he and others made around the world, it was a far off dream that the advent of the internet could only hint at. The 17,000+ recordings he had made since the 1940s (and these, by the way, don’t include the recordings he made for the Library of Congress in the 1930s and 1940s) would need conservation work, digitization, and a robust search and delivery platform. Recently that work has been completed by the Association for Cultural Equity, a nonprofit founded by Lomax in 1983 “to explore and preserve the world’s expressive traditions with humanistic commitment and scientific engagement.”
Progarchistas should be aware of this archive because — in addition to its contents being at the root of much rock, including progressive rock, music — the work of Lomax, probably the…
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Study Guide: American Heritage Midterm 2
American Heritage Midterm 2 Study Guide; March 29, 2016
Birzer
Section I: Short Answers (10 total)
Section II: You’ll answer four and only four of six definitions. The six will come from the following list:
- Abraham Lincoln
- Alexis De Tocqueville
- Andrew Jackson
- Anti-Imperialist League
- Charles Grandison Finney
- Democracy
- Democratic Party
- E. L. Godkin
- Edmund Burke
- Federalist Papers
- Frederick Jackson Turner
- George Washington
- John C. Calhoun
- John L. O’Sullivan
- Lorenzo Dow
- Manifest Destiny
- Northern (pre-civil war) agrarianism (refer to slides I gave you with maps and stats)
- Northwest Ordinance
- Second Great Awakening
- Theodore Roosevelt
- U. S. Constitution (including first 15 amendments)
Tucson Paper Reviews RUSSELL KIRK: AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
Oh, nice Easter surprise. A Tucson paper reviews RUSSELL KIRK: AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE.Golgotha: The Meaning of the Journey
My children, when you were little, we used sometimes to go for walks in our pine woods. In the open fields, you would run along by yourselves. But you used instinctively to give me your hands as we entered those woods, where it was darker, lonelier, and in the stillness our voices sounded loud and frightening. In this book I am again giving you my hands. I am leading you, not through cool pinewoods, but up and up a narrow defile between bare and steep rocks from which in shadow things uncoil and slither away. It will be dark. But, in the end, if I have let you aright, you will make out three crosses, from two of which hang thieves. I will have brought you to Golgotha—the place of skulls. This is the meaning of the journey. Before you understand, I may not be there; my hands maybe have slipped from yours. It will not matter. For when you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman, and child on earth, you will be wise.
—Whittaker Chambers, WITNESS, 1952
“Pine Trees and Cold Water” by Elizabeth Hamilton
An excellent essay and reflection by my former student and (current!) friend, Lizzie Hamilton. Enjoy!
Pine trees and cold water
March 22, 2016
To keep reading–and you should!–please go here:
http://elizabethannehamilton.com/2016/03/22/pine-trees-and-cold-water/
The Genius of Mike Church
Yesterday, I had the great honor of speaking with one of the
The Dude Maker himself, Mike Church
single best radio personalities in the United States and, frankly, the world: Mike Church. We talked for over 75 minutes, though, the actual edit comes down to about 50 minutes.
Mike asked such profound questions that my head actually hurt for about an hour after the interview.
Thank you, Mike–for your personal support for me and for your unrelenting support of the American republic and the Catholic Church. I’m so glad you’ve been loosed upon the world.
And, if you’re interested, here’s my take on one of Mike’s movies:
http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2011/06/the-road-to-independence-mike-church.html
Real Conservatives Don’t Have Time for Bigotry
Reagan’s first autobiography, 1965.
“He believed literally that all men were created equal and that he man’s own ambition determined what happened to him after that. He put his principles into practice. . . . in the dark depression years when he was trying to earn a buck on the road as a shoe salesman, he checked into a small-town hotel. ‘Fine,’ said the clerk, reversing the register and reading his name. ‘You like it here, Mr. Reagan. We don’t permit a Jew in the place. My father picked up his suitcase again. ‘I’m a Catholic,’ he said furiously, ‘and if it’s come to the point where you won’t take Jews, you won’t take me either.’ Since it was the only hotel in town, he spent the night in his car in the snow. He contracted near-pneumonia and a short time later had the first heart attack of the several that led to his death.”—Ronald Reagan, My Early Life (1965).
As a child, Reagan wasn’t permitted to see BIRTH OF THE NATION because it was “against the colored folks.”
Stormfields 