University Bookman, Winter 1969 (full issue)
Fair issue. Best essay is by Francis Canavan on Edmund Burke.
University Bookman, Autumn 1968 (full issue)
Peter Stanlis
A really good issue, featuring pieces by M.E. Bradford and Peter Stanlis.
Neil Peart: Cultural Repercussions Now Available
As any Neil Peart fan well knows, the great man just celebrated his 63rd birthday and his sequel to his co-authored novel, CLOCKWORK LIVES, comes out tomorrow. We all eagerly await with intense and immense anticipation this new work by Peart and Hugo-nominated science-fiction author, Kevin J. Anderson.
Out September 15, 2015.
I must also proudly note that my intellectual biography of the world’s greatest drummer comes out tomorrow as well. NEIL PEART: CULTURAL (RE)PERCUSSIONS (WordFire Press). It will be available in paperback ($14.99) and ebook ($5.99) but is now available for pre-order.
I have to thank a lot of folks for their encouragement with this book project, and I hope I give everyone due credit in the book. When I read the works of Steve Horwitz and Rob Freedman, I just knew that I had to write a book on Peart. I’ve loved Neil Peart’s words and…
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My Latest at Catholic World Report: How ORDER Helped Create the Catholic Literary Revival
Almost no one remembers the short-lived journal, Order, as it appeared over eighty years ago and only lasted four issues. But the journal, which appeared the late 1920s, set off a chain of events that can, in hindsight, be described as the beginning of the “Catholic Literary Revival” of the twentieth century. Of course, it had a lot of help, but Order as a periodical served as a catalyst to connect English-speaking Roman Catholics to their European (West and East) counterparts. Its story, though brief, reveals much about the absolute necessity of a Catholic Republic of Letters, especially in an age of terror and ideology.
To read the entire article, please go to CWR: http://www.catholicworldreport.com/Item/4160/order_the_brief_and_extraordinary_life_of_a_catholic_movement.aspx
The Reverent Prog of Neal Morse: MorseFest 2014
A review of Neal Morse, MorseFest 2014. Four CDs/Two DVDs. Radiant Records, 2015.
Birzer Rating: 11 out of 10 (yes, you read this correctly!)
And if Neal can find God, then what’s in it for me?
Could I take that same road?
Would the truth set me free?
–Andy Tillison, Mr. Prog, 2015.
MorseFest 2014
I am the proud owner of not one but two Neal Morse, MORSEFEST! 2014 six-disc sets. It’s prog, after all. Why not go overboard? Radiant has kindly sent progarchy all releases in, during, and through our three-year old life as a website. But, Radiant is just such an amazing label, that I refuse not to support them. For every CD they send me, I buy one from them. It only seems just.
Before I even begin this review, I have to state two things which I’ve already noted several times on progarchy. First, Morse…
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The True American Response to 9/11
With every fiber of my being, I despise our national security state. Real Americans don’t hide behind police and bureaucrats. They strike back with all the force that is given them.
The example of Tom Burnett should be the real American response to terror and all threats to our god-given freedoms.
Remember Burnett? He was a 38-year old Wall Street Banker, father of three girls, husband to a beautiful wife, and a devout Christian.
This man, a former college football player for St. John’s College in Minnesota, a lover of business as well as of ancient Greek philosophy, helped two other courageous western men drive a jet airliner into rural Pennsylvania soil on a clear September morning, 2001.
“We’re all going to die, but three of us are going to do something about it. I love you honey.” These were the last words his wife heard over the cell phone.
These are the words of a Western Man; this was an American.
Be an American, not a coward.
Reflections on South Sudan (III)
Since returning from my trip to South Sudan several weeks ago, a number of people have asked me how visiting one of the poorest, most violent countries in the world has affected my belief in God. The question usually comes around to the problem of evil: if God is wholly good and wholly powerful, how could […]
http://elizabethannehamilton.com/2015/09/07/reflections-on-south-sudan-iii/
Washington’s Farewell Address to the Continental Army
The United States in Congress assembled after giving the most honorable testimony to the merits of the federal Armies, and presenting them with The post Washington’s Farewell Address to the Continental Army appeared first on The Imaginative Conservative.
Freedom is Coming: MorseFest 2015
A review of MorseFest, 2015 (Friday night only)
With apologies–photos taken from an older iPhone. Not great quality.
Last Friday, September 4, as soon as I’d finished teaching my freshmen courses on Western Civilization, my wife, Dedra, and I got into the car and drove 8 hours south to Cross Plains, Tennessee, site of MorseFest 2015. We had originally hoped to attend the entire weekend, but family necessities prevented this. We were only going to be able to attend Friday night.
We made it by 7 (aided by a time change, gaining an hour), and found ourselves at a rather nice, contemporary Protestant church, just south of the Kentucky border. Even walking across the parking lot, my wife and I realized this would not be the normal prog crowd. Indeed, a huge variety of peoples was walking into the church—including lots of elderly women, immaculately dressed. We had seen the…
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A few years back, I go to a nature writing retreat in the North Cascades. I think it’s a writing retreat set in nature, but it’s actually a writing retreat about nature. I grew up going camping with my family, and my hardcore backpacker dad was known to shake us out of our road trip malaise with a well-timed and hearty, “Look at that mountain! Isn’t it beautiful?!”, but I haven’t yet adopted his love and knowledge of nature for myself. So you can imagine my dismay when, with just a prompt and a pen, my fellow writers conjure up stunning essays about the animals and plants around us, calling each by its name and weaving in poignant personal revelations, while I stammer nervously about wood nymphs and cliché dusty shafts of sunlight filtering through the trees. Even though I wear a Patagonia fleece borrowed from my roommate, I can’t…
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Stormfields 