https://www.libertyclassroom.com A glorious thanks to my great friend, Tom Woods, a man of intense and abiding virtue. I’ve just completed my second set of courses for his Liberty Classroom. The course is on Mythology and the Western Tradition…. Read More
I’m not sure exactly why I needed to look this up today, but the horrific events in Florida this week made me think of JPII’s extremely Catholic teaching that every individual matters. The following, which Pope John Paul… Read More
Yesterday, I had the grand privilege of speaking with John Barron (Chicago Tribune) about Russell Kirk on live tv, C-Span’s Book TV. It was wonderful, and John, not surprisingly, was a brilliant gentleman. In fact, everyone at the… Read More
Today, as many of you probably know, is the 75th anniversary of C.S. Lewis’s delivering his most famous sermon, “The Weight of Glory.” Though the following is NOT about that sermon, it is quite revealing and quite moving…. Read More
Thank you to Mark Sullivan and Carl E. Olson. Mention the name “Russell Kirk” to someone who describes himself as “conservative” and you are likely to get a blank look or, at best, be told, “I’ve heard the name.” (Readers… Read More
Still, as we’ve come—sometimes slowly and sometimes quickly—to realize just how dead marriage is as an institution, we’ve—in our confusion and bewilderment and shock—tried to assign blame, to find a scapegoat. There is none. The trouble is not… Read More
Source: John Betjeman to C.S. Lewis, December 13, 1939, in Candida Lycett Green, ed., John Betjeman Letters, Vol. 1, pp. 250-253. Dear Mr Lewis, Since I have just expunged from the proofs of a preface of a new… Read More
Every month, I eagerly await the new piece at KINDRED by my excellent and amazing friend, Rachel W. Gough. My wait is always well worth it. She’s one of my favorite writers as well as one of my… Read More
The last sentence of your obituary may give the impression that C.S. Lewis was too busy writing to have much time for social relations, and that he had little gift for them. To many this will seem much… 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/
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