“Tocqueville is a writer who should be read not in abridgment, but wholly; for every sentence has significance, every observation sagacity. The two big volumes of Democracy in America are a mine of aphorisms, his Old Regime is… Read More
“Thus there cannot be brothers and sisters in a mystical sense without a mystical father. There is no brotherhood of mankind, in short, without the fatherhood of God. The Christian calls this kinship in Christ.” (420-421) “Among the… Read More
“A friend of mine, about the time my book The Conservative Mind was published, told me that if I wanted to sell any copies, I ought to get the word “sex” into the title somehow, since only that… Read More
SOURCE: Russell Kirk, “The Great Education Debate 59 (May 1961): 4-7, 26, 28. rak divisive charge 1961
Source: Russell Kirk, “The Intemperate Educator,” AMERICAN OPINION (November 1962): 23-30. rak intemperate educator 1961
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N.B. This is one of Christopher Dawson’s most important pieces regarding the soul and imagination. It is about what Winston Elliott would call “imaginative conservatism.” Enjoy. Source: Christopher Dawson, “The Dark Mirror,” DUBLIN REVIEW (October 1930): 177-200. cd… Read More
SOURCE: Christopher Dawson, “Religion in the Age of Revolution,” THE TABLET (1936). Multiple issue series. cd religion in the age of revolution
Source: Christopher Dawson, “Religion and Romanticism,” CHRISTENDOM 1 (Summer 1936): 577-592. cd religion and romanticism 1936
Over at The Imaginative Conservative, I had the opportunity to praise one of my three favorite living science-fiction writers, J. Michael Straczynski. My love of this man is nearly 20 years in the making, and I proudly own every… Read More
A nice contrast to Johnson’s supposed “Great Society”: The Creative Society, in other words, is simply a return to the people of the privilege of self-government, as well as a pledge for more efficient representative government–citizens of proven… Read More
To celebrate what would’ve been J.R.R. Tolkien’s 123rd birthday on January 3 of this year, I posted the following at The Imaginative Conservative. As a person who has written on Tolkien for almost fifteen years and read Tolkien… Read More
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