Request for Any Robert Nisbet Correspondence
Dear Anyone,
I’m trying to collect any and all letters to and from Robert Nisbet (1913-1996). He wrote letters frequently, but no one has yet collected his correspondence except for the Library of Congress (which just has three boxes, mostly manuscripts of books).
If you have any extent correspondence to or from Nisbet and would be willing to copy or scan any or all of it for me, I would be extremely grateful.
If there are costs involved, just let me know.
Yours, thankfully, Brad
Please just email me at my gmail.com account: bradbirzer@
Mark Pulliam Reviews RUSSELL KIRK: AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
A very kind and very detailed review of RUSSELL KIRK: AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE. Thank you, Liberty Fund!
http://www.libertylawsite.org/2016/01/15/the-fertility-god-of-conservatism/
A Few Nice Nisbet Quotes
Robert Nisbet (1913-1996)
“Traditionalist we may choose to label Burke, but the fact is, few minds of stature have ever given more brilliant witness to rights, liberties and equities in the affairs of government”
“Insight into the nature of the totalitarian mind, complete with its passion for centralization and uniformity, for rationalist extirpation of tradition and prejudgment, and for an absolute moralism that would extend when necessary to terror was not so easily com by in the late 18th Century, and we owe Burke much for this first insight.”
–Robert Nisbet, “Burke’s Guide to Revolution,” Wall Street Journal (June 5, 1972), 12.
“Patriotism is indispensable to the American nation. Nothing, however, corrupts and damages patriotism like war that is without relation to clear and compelling national interest.”
–Robert Nisbet, “War, Crisis, and Intellectuals,” Wall Street Journal (January 25, 1971), p. 10.
Kat Timpf: The Full and True Story!
The prettiest and best mind on Fox.
Ha. My praise of all that is Kat Timpf, a former student and always friend.
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/a-fearless-millennial-at-fox-news/
Ralph Hauenstein, RIP
What a man. I only had the privilege of meeting him a few times, but I thoroughly enjoyed his company. And, he treated one of the men I respect most–Gleaves Whitney–with all due support and respect. Thank you, Mr. Hauenstein. A true western man.
http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2016/01/businessman_philanthropist_ral.html
Three Thoughts about Charles Carroll of Carrollton
ISI Books, 2010.
I was just asked by a group in France to describe three aspects of Charles Carroll of Carrollton’s thought and life. Nice. I’ve not given a lot of thought re: him for several years. Kind of like visiting an old friend.
For what they’re worth, here are my three thoughts.
Over at TIC: Salem’s Lot
Why I love the novel, Salem’s Lot, by Stephen King. Over at The Imaginative Conservative:
http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2016/01/is-salems-lot-a-great-work-of-horror.html
My Favorite Book of 2015
I am very grateful to my friend, Daniel McCarthy, for having invited me to write 300 words about my favorite book of 2015.
For 2014, I went Hayekian and philosophical: Jim Otteson’s masterful THE END OF SOCIALISM.
For 2015, I went artistic.
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-american-conservatives-2015-books-symposium/
Sam Gregg Reviews RUSSELL KIRK: AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
I’m thrilled by this beautifully-written review of RUSSELL KIRK: AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE. Thank you, Dr. Gregg!
My Favorite Books of 2015
Enjoy! And, thank you to Carl Olson, as always, for asking me to participate. An honor!
http://www.catholicworldreport.com/Item/4473/The_Best_Books_I_Read_in_2015.aspx
London Telegraph’s Obit of Steve Masty
A huge thanks to Winston Elliott for sending this to me. Makes me so proud to have been Steve’s friend. He helped me profoundly with my biography of Russell Kirk. What a character.
Ralph McInerny on Catholic Liberal Education
A wonderful quote for that twentieth-century gentleman of academia, Professor Ralph McInerny.
Otto Bird reminds of us of a better time, when it was understood that the faith should animate imagination and mind as well as the corporal works of mercy. Indeed, what is peculiar to the Catholic university is precisely that in its halls intellectual and imaginative pursuits are seen in terms of the great journey mankind is on toward salvation. It is curiously true that the fact that this life is a mere prelude to the true life men are meant for hereafter, far from devaluing the things of this world, enhances them and casts over them a light they could not have otherwise.… Faith in Hope and Love do not make one disdainful of this world but rather, by seeing it as the stage on which one’s eternal condition will be settled, give it far profound or significance than it could have if ‘our little lives were rounded in a sleep.’
–Ralph McInerny, “Preface,” in Otto Bird, Seeking a Center: My Life as a Great Bookie (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1991), 10.
Stormfields 