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Volume 46, Number 4 (Winter 2008)

Table of Contents

Editor’s Note: Remembering Russell Kirk

Lost Causes and Gained Causes
by James E. Person Jr.
Russell Kirk’s Legacy After 15 Years
The Many Roots of American Order
by Lee Edwards
From Tradition to ‘Values Conservatism’
by Paul Gottfried
A Sympathetic Critic’s View of Kirk’s Legacy
The Sword of Education
by David G. Bonagura, Jr.
‘And Therefore as Stranger Give It Welcome’
by R. Andrew Newman
Russell Kirk’s Ghostly Fiction Invites Us to Embrace and Live the Mystery
A Foreign Policy for (Probably Not Very Many) Americans
by John Willson
Heaven on Earth or Hell’s Dress Rehearsal
a review by Mark Kalthoff
Isaac Newton’s Philosophy of Sacred Space and Sacred Time: An Essay on the History of an Idea by Gregory Gillette The Edwin Mellen Press (Lewiston, N.Y.) 119 pp., $99.95 cloth, 2007
Despotism Justified
a review by Mattei Radu
Russian Conservatism and Its Critics: A Study in Political Culture by Richard Pipes. Yale University Press (New Haven, Conn.) 216 pp., $30.00 cloth, 2006
Toward a Conservative Conservation Movement
a review by Tobias J. Lanz
Why Conservation Is Failing and How It Can Regain Ground by Eric T. Freyfogle. Yale University Press (New Haven, Conn.) 302 pp., $37.00 cloth, 2006
Morality in History and Historiography
a review by Jason Ross
Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the American Civil War by Harry S. Stout. Viking Penguin (New York) 576 pp., $29.95 cloth, 2006
Six Honest Serving-Men
a review by R. J. Stove
The Information-Literate Historian: A Guide to Research for History Students by Jenny L. Presnell. Oxford University Press (New York City) 256 pp., $17.95 paper 2006
A Formidable Conservative Mind
a review by Austin Bramwell
Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction by Thomas K. McCraw. Belknap Press (Cambridge, Mass.) 736 pp., $35 cloth, 2007
A Patron Saint of Teachers
by James V. Schall, S.J.
On Essays and Letters
Books in Little
a review by The Editors

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Is Life Worth Living?
Essay by Russell Kirk
 

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