Review 3 March 2013
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The Perils of Neutrality
Bruce P. Frohnen
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The Common Good of Constitutional Democracy: Essays in Political Philosophy and on Catholic Social Teaching
by Martin Rhonheimer, edited by William F. Murphy, Jr. Catholic University of America Press, 2013.
Paperback, 560 pages, $45.
Review 3 March 2013
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Capitalism vs. the Free Market
Ivan Pongracic
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The Morality of Capitalism: What Your Professors Won’t Tell You
edited by Tom Palmer.
Jameson Books, Inc., 2011.
Paperback, 129 pp., $8.95.
Defending the Free Market: The Moral Case for a Free Economy
by Robert Sirico.
Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2012.
Hardcover, 213 pp. $27.95.
Review 24 February 2013
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Tolkien and the Great Tale
Adam Schwartz
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The Christian World of ‘The Hobbit’
by Devin Brown.
Abingdon Press, 2012
193 pp., $14.99 paper.
Best of the Bookman 24 February 2013
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Farming, Community, and Culture
N. Alan Cornett
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Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community, by Wendell Berry. Pantheon Books 1994, 208 pp., $20, cloth; $10 paper.
Essay 21 February 2013
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Marital Distress and the 2012 T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize
Eugene Schlanger
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Sharon Olds’s “marital distress poetry” was awarded the 2012 T. S. Eliot Prize. The Wall Street Poet looks for some cultural or poetic significance in Olds’s verse.
Review 17 February 2013
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(The Future of) Liberalism in Our Disordered Age
Ted V. McAllister
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Post-Liberalism: The Death of a Dream
by Melvyn L. Fein.
Transaction Press, 2012.
Cloth, 359 pages, $40.
Interview 17 February 2013
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Prog Rock and the Permanent Things: More with Bradley Birzer
an interview by Gerald J. Russello
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Part Two of a two-part interview with Bradley Birzer, who holds the Russell Amos Kirk Chair of American Studies at Hillsdale College. Birzer says the conservative task privileges preserving and sanctifying culture over politics. He also discusses Augustine, Christian Humanism, and progressive rock.
Interview 10 February 2013
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The Libertarian Who Loves Kirk: Bradley Birzer on the Permanent Things
an interview by Gerald J. Russello
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Part One of a two-part interview with Bradley Birzer, who holds the Russell Amos Kirk Chair of American Studies at Hillsdale College. Birzer talks about his personal and intellectual influences and what he finds fascinating about Russell Kirk.
Review 10 February 2013
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Think Local, Act Local
Tobias J. Lanz
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How to Think Seriously About the Planet: The Case for an Environmental Conservatism by Roger Scruton. Oxford University Press, 2012.
Hardcover, 464 pages, $30.
Review 3 February 2013
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A Church of One
Michael J. Ard
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Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty
by John M. Barry.
Viking, 2012,
Cloth, 480 pages, $35.
Best of the Bookman 3 February 2013
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An Exercise in Polemic
Barry Alan Shain
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The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution, 1785–1800, by Conor Cruise O’Brien. University of Chicago Press, 1996, 367 pp., $30 cloth.
Review 27 January 2013
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Hope or Despair? Roger Kimball and the Future of Culture
Wilfred M. McClay
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The Fortunes of Permanence: Culture and Anarchy in an Age of Amnesia
by Roger Kimball.
St. Augustine’s Press, 2012.
Hardcover, 360 pp., $35.
Best of the Bookman 27 January 2013
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Reflections on the Fundamental Law
Anthony Harrigan
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The Conservative Constitution, by Russell Kirk. Regnery Gateway, 1990. Hardcover, 241 pp., $22.95 (as reviewed).
Revised and expanded as Rights and Duties, with an introduction by Russell Hittinger (Spence, 1997).
Review 20 January 2013
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The Persistence of History
P. Bracy Bersnak
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After Tocqueville: The Promise and Failure of Democracy
by Chilton Williamson, Jr.
ISI Books, 2012
Hardcover, 288 pages, $28
The moral imagination is the principal possession that man does not share with the beasts. It is man’s power to perceive ethical truth, abiding law, in the seeming chaos of many events. Without the moral imagination, man would live merely day to day, or rather moment to moment, as dogs do. It is the strange faculty—inexplicable if men are assumed to have an animal nature only—of discerning greatness, justice, and order, beyond the bars of appetite and self-interest.
Russell Kirk, Enemies of the Permanent Things, 1969
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