There are a number of writers who both inspire and humble me. Albert Jay Nock, perhaps the most individual of individualists, almost always floors me when I read him. He enlivens my soul and my mind, but he… Read More
This morning at The Imaginative Conservative, my review of an extraordinary new book by Ulrich Lehner. The sum of Dr. Lehner’s argument is this: contrary to popular and secular mythologies, the Church possessed a number of critical personalities… Read More
Oh, nice Easter surprise. A Tucson paper reviews RUSSELL KIRK: AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE. http://soaznewsx.com/daniel-davis-russell-kirk-american-conservative-book-review/
Every one’s favorite Catholic World Report editor, Carl Olson, has two new books coming out. Very exciting. Make sure you order early and often! One is Called To Be the Children of God: The Catholic Theology of Deification (Ignatius Press),… Read More
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 specifically Catholic examination of the New Humanism of Irving Babbitt and Paul Elmer More, 1929. Enjoy. commonweal on new humanism 1929
Fascinating look at the future of Catholicism as seen during World War II. cd on the future of catholicism
Two of the most important men of the twentieth-century Catholic literary revival: Frank Sheed and Christopher Dawson. sheed interview dawson 1958
A really nice autobiographical piece Dawson wrote. An examination of his life as a non-academic scholar. cd ploughing 1960
From a periodical I’d never heard of before my academic work on Christopher Dawson. Good interview, however. interview with Christopher Dawson 1959
One of Dawson’s little known and little-remembered pieces and one of his best. TRADITION AND INHERITANCE was an attempt to write an autobiography from the standpoint of family rather than individual. A beautiful idea, but it proved too… Read More
third interview with CD 1961
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