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
Stay tuned as Adam Fuller and I Go Ape!
After much painful and gut-wretching wrestling with myself that summer and fall, I voted for Mitt Romney in 2012. It’s one of the few things in my life I truly regret. Only twice have I voted against my… 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
My praise of Thomas Jefferson, our most brilliant president. http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2016/05/thomas-jefferson-polar-star-discovery.html
“SERVICE THE ONE GREAT IDEAL” by President Warren G. Harding [Address before the Rotary International Convention, Coliseum, St. Louis, Mo., June 21, 1923, 4:30 p. m.] *** Mr. Chairman and Fellow Rotarians: If I ever make another application… 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
There are a number of writers who both inspire and humble me. Albert Jay Nock, perhaps the most individual of individualists, almost always floors me when I read him. He enlivens my soul and my mind, but he… Read More
I had a blast writing this article about one of my favorite thinkers, Robert Nisbet, for The American Conservative. Thank you so much, Daniel McCarthy! http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/prophet-of-community/
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
An Imaginative Conservative Dialogue. The grand Adam Fuller and I discuss Kirk, Bush, and Gulf War I. http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2016/04/russell-kirk-right-gulf-war.html
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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