Interviews with Maritain, Gilson, and Dawson
Interesting United Nations book exploring various western religions. Published in 1964.
Interviews with Jacques Maritain, Etienne Gilson, and Christopher Dawson.
Interview with Christopher Dawson, 1961
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My apologies for the poor quality. Yet, this short interview is well worth reading. Naturally. . .
Join Tom Wood’s Liberty Classroom
2015 has been an amazing year. One of the best parts has been becoming a part of Tom Woods’s Liberty Classroom. Please consider joining this astounding program of education and outreach.
Video: Guy Fawkes Day/Acton Lecture on Kirk
An immense thanks to Mike Cook and Michael M. Miller at Acton for sponsoring and arranging this book release lecture. I had a wonderful time.
Free Ebook from the University Press of Kentucky
Take a selfie of you and your copy of RUSSELL KIRK: AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE and get a free ebook! And, thank you.
And, most likely, Russell Kirk would NOT approve. But, I do.
G.K. Chesterton on King Alfred
If you have the chance, hunt down a copy of THE ENGLISH WAY, a 1933 book published by Sheed and Ward and edited by Maisie Ward. It offers a gorgeous and insightful look at the lives of Anglo-Saxon saints. Christopher Dawson, E.I. Watkins, Gervase Mathew, Hilaire Belloc, Martin D’Arcy, and G.K. Chesterton provide reflections and biographies of all of the major saints (and those simply important) from Bede to Boniface to Alcuin to Thomas More.
Here’s one slice from Chesterton on King Alfred:
Alfred “clarified and codified the best laws of the West Saxon tradition; but he became a more important sort of legislator in the moral sphere when he translated Boethius for his people, with very characteristic additions of his own; and so brought into England the full tradition of Europe; the tradition of the Christian creed resting upon the Pagan culture. He had been troubled all his life with a recurrent and rather mysterious disease; and he died at the early age of fifty-two, in the first year of the new century. The night of the barbarian peril was already over, and he died in the dawn.”—THE ENGLISH WAY, pg. 57
Wall Street Journal Reviews Russell Kirk: American Conservative
A huge thanks to Lee Edwards and the Wall Street Journal for reviewing RUSSELL KIRK: AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE.
Who was this remarkable figure? The answer is provided in “Russell Kirk: American Conservative,” a beautifully written and deeply insightful biography by Bradley J. Birzer, a distinguished professor of history at Hillsdale College. Mr. Birzer traces the development of Kirk’s ideas, especially the influence of Burke, Dawson, Eliot and (surprise) the political philosopher Leo Strauss.
To keep reading, please go here: http://www.wsj.com/articles/opening-of-the-american-mind-1447719869
Steve Donoghue Reviews Russell Kirk: American Conservative
A wonderful review by Steve Donoghue. He calls the bio stylish and heartfelt.
Franco-American Friendship: It’s Real
LaFayette and Washington: Two Great Men.
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