Nowhere are Roman ruins thicker than in Tunisia. For this, from the days when Scipio took Punic Carthage until the Vandals broke into the city, was the Province of Africa, wondrously rich and populous. St. Augustine was born… Read More
As Americans continue celebrating, remembering, and analyzing the events of 150 years ago, the noble tragedy of the American Civil War, it is certainly worth considering the words of great and profound thinkers who have studied the event…. Read More
“As the Roman Republic was at the back of the minds of the framers of the American Constitution; it was their hope that the chief magistrate of these United States would conduct himself with “the high old Roman… Read More
Notes on Kirk, PROSPECTS FOR CONSERVATIVES, 1989 notes taken by Brad Birzer (May 10, 2002; revised on August 9, 2010) In preparation for August 13, 2010 CAI conference, Houston, Texas Me presiding/DL Winston’s 50th birthday *** Neither American… Read More
“We may define Babbitt’s humanism as the belief that man is a distinct being, government by laws peculiar to his nature: there is a law for man, and law for thing. Man stands higher than the beasts that… Read More
“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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Not well known in the U.S., Marcel was one of the foremost Christian Humanists of 20th-century Europe. This article, in particular, influenced Russell Kirk. So much so that Kirk hoped to co-author a book with Marcel. Source: Gabriel… Read More
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