Russell Kirk: American Conservative Excerpt
600-page biography of Russell Kirk. November 5, 2015. Pre-order now.
“Kirk presented a Christian sanctification of the pagan myth of Perseus and his nemesis the Gorgon, Medusa. indeed, this myth holds the entire book together. “a man if he venerates the ashes of his fathers and the temples of his gods, will seek out the terror and strike with all the strength that is in him, as Perseus struck,” Kirk wrote, paraphrasing a famous lay by Thomas Babington Macaulay, the nineteenth-century British historian and poet.75 america, in Kirk’s understanding, serves as the modern Perseus, striking against the secularization and ideologization of the postwar world. like Perseus, america could turn away from its task—as the leading power of the Western world—at any moment. and like Perseus, america would need to contend with the problems of power, self, and enemy.”
–Bradley Birzer, RUSSELL KIRK: AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE (forthcoming, UP of Kentucky, November 5, 2015), pp. 144-145.
University Bookman V25 N1 Autumn 1984 (Full Issue)
Excellent piece on George Orwell by John Rodden.
University Bookman V24 N4 Summer 1984 (Full Issue)
Great piece (first article) on Malcom Muggeridge.
University Bookman V24 N3 Spring 1984 (Full Issue)
Wild issue: Catholicism; Gnosticism; Southern Protestantism; and Magic.
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.
Stormfields 