As many of you probably know (after all, I talk about it all the time!), Tom Woods created a virtual academy several years ago with his excellent website, Liberty Classroom. As the traditional university continues to decay, drowning in… Read More
If you’re interested, here’s my first lecture of the Autumn 2016 semester–Western Heritage, an Introduction, looking at the questions: what is man; what is God; and what is man’s relationship to man?
Course: Western Heritage, H104-7; H104-8 Autumn 2016, meets in LANE 233 Professor Bradley J. Birzer; office: Delp 403; bbirzer@hillsdale.edu Required Readings Hillsdale College History Department, ed., Western Heritage Reader (provided) Secondary text (available in HC Bookstore) handouts/readings… Read More
I am deeply honored to have won this year’s Paolucci Prize from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. Overwhelmed might be a better work than honored! Well, both, actually. Thank you, ISI, and thank you, Russell Kirk! Here are the… Read More
T.E. Hulme’s posthumous masterpiece, SPECULATIONS. Hulme was the first conservative of the twentieth-century, influencing almost too many figures to count–but most importantly T.S. Eliot and Christopher Dawson. First published in 1924, almost a decade after Hulme’s death in… Read More
Not one of his students would ever accuse Father O’Connell of softness, favoritism, or sloth. He was a fierce man, a fierce priest, and a fierce professor. He possessed perhaps the most penetrating and intelligent eyes and brow… Read More
A beautiful series of reflections on the nature of Christian Humanism in the 1920s and 1930s. Frank Sheed, as is well known, was the architect behind the Christian Humanist revival of the first 1/3 of the twentieth-century. sidelights… Read More
The story of The Watchmen takes place in an alternative or parallel 1985, a world deeply cynical, a world that found no solace after Nixon. Actually, somehow in 1985, Richard Nixon is still the president of the United States. The… Read More
Dawson’s 1931 masterpiece, CHRISTIANITY AND THE NEW AGE, plus his introduction to his fourteen-volume series, ESSAYS IN ORDER. cd new age 1931
Enjoy this pdf of Dawson’s 1939 book, BEYOND POLITICS. An extraordinary effort on great man’s part. cd beyond politics
A short but brilliant 1932 book by Christopher Dawson. Well worth reading, especially in this insane and violent age. cd modern dilemma full book
Dear Liberty Classroom member: All the lectures for Robert Murphy’s course on the history of economic thought are now available: http://www.libertyclassroom.com/courses/history-of-economic-thought-part-i-classical-economics-and-the-marginal-revolution/ Some serious knowledge bombs are dropped in this course, taught by one of the best Austrian School economists… Read More
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