The very first review of RUSSELL KIRK: AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE is up, and I couldn’t be happier. Thank you, Bob, and thank you, The Imaginative Conservative. A deep honor. http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2015/11/review-of-russell-kirk-american-conservative.html
Over at theimaginativeconservative.org, I have a piece of piety–a remembrance of Clyde S. Kilby, the great man who first realized the intellectual profundity of Tolkien’s work in the U.S. Last night, I had the chance to reread Kilby’s… Read More
Five million reads later. . . The Imaginative Conservative is 5 years old today. My love letter to Winston Elliott, founder and mastermind of TIC. http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2015/07/five-candles-each-blazing-the-imaginative-conservative.html
Over at The Imaginative Conservative, I’ve started a series of reviews of Alfred Hitchcock movies. Here’s my first: http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2015/05/nietzsche-and-modernity-on-the-silver-screen-alfred-hitchcocks-rope.html Enjoy!
This morning, the wonderful editors at The Imaginative Conservative posted a piece I wrote on George Orwell. Despite his blistering attacks on all forms of socialism in his fiction, many scholars have considered Orwell a socialist. Yet, as… Read More
My piece at The Imaginative Conservative: http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2015/04/imaginative-conservative-guide-dystopian-literature-3.html
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
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
Many regard this as Paul Elmer More’s most important essay. Certainly, it is the article that inspired the “moral imagination” of Irving Babbitt, T.S. Eliot, Russell Kirk, and Winston Elliott. pem disraeli and conservatism Source: Paul Elmer More,… Read More
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