From the Archives: Why I Love Words
Trash. But, interesting trash.
Published at The Imaginative Conservative:
When I got to junior high, she gave me books by Leon Uris and James Michener, and I fell in love with the history of the Jews and Israel. For a while, I was rather obsessed with possible Jewish ancestry. In high school, she diversified the “ratings” of many of the things she suggested to me. I remember clearly when she handed me a copy of Peyton Place. “Bradley, this is trash, but you should know what kind of trash it is.” She was right. It was trash, but I devoured every word of it.
For the full essay, go here: http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2014/02/love-words-love-of-books.html
University Bookman V24 N1 Autumn 1983 (Full Issue)
Excellent issue featuring Father James Schall on prayer and fasting for bureaucrats.
University Bookman V6 N4 Summer 1966 (Full Issue)
Interesting issue featuring Ernest van den Haag and Philip Crane.
University Bookman V23 N4 Summer 1983 (Full Issue)
Weak issue. Only two articles: one on maintaining quality at private colleges and another on why a conservative shouldn’t like Thomas Jefferson.
University Bookman V23 N3 Spring 1983 (Full Issue)
Another good, not great, issue. With articles by Thomas Molnar and one about Orestes Brownson.
University Bookman V23 N1 Autumn 1982 (Full Issue)
An excellent piece on Paul Elmer More by T. John Jamieson and RAK’s obit of Warren Fleischauer.
University Bookman V20 N3 Spring 1980 (Full Issue)
Good, not great issue: with articles by Louis Filler, Sam Francis, and John Pafford.
University Bookman V33 N2 1993 (Full Issue)
Good issue. Articles by/about John Courtney Murray, Mark Henrie, Vigen Guroian, Gary Gregg, Edward Ericson, and Camile Paglia.
1992 Russell Kirk Quote on Agrarianism and Leviathan
Ok, a bit embarrassed about this. . . but I just found a Russell Kirk piece I had no idea existed. Missed this one in the bio!
“Like the Celts of the Twilight, it seems, the Agrarians have gone forth often to battle, but never to victory. America’s farm population now totals perhaps two percent of the national population. Centralization of power in Washington continues apace. Nationwide television broadcasters rapidly efface any remnants of regional cultures. In many other ways, society becomes dully uniform and thoroughly urbanized. While we talk windily still of free enterprise, the industrial and commercial conglomerates move toward oligopoly and on a tremendous scale. Leviathan, the monstrous society, swallows its myriads.”
–Russell Kirk, “Testimony to a Humane Social Order,” UNIVERSITY BOOKMAN 33 (1992): 3. [Full issue in previous post]
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