Interview 19 May 2013
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Copperheads, Community, and Those Who Have Lost
an interview by Gerald J. Russello
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Bill Kauffman, screenwriter for the upcoming feature film Copperhead, speaks with the Bookman about localism, war, and his forthcoming film.
Best of the Bookman 19 May 2013
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The Moral Imperative of Edmund Burke
Rod Preece
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Edmund Burke: The Enlightenment and Revolution
by Peter J. Stanlis, Foreword by Russell Kirk.
Transaction Publishers, 1991.
xxi +259 pp. $40.
Edmund Burke: Prescription and Providence
by Francis Canavan.
Carolina Academic Press, 1987.
xiv +183 pp. $24.
On Essays and Letters 12 May 2013
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On General Wolfe’s Preference
James V. Schall, S.J.
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Father Schall looks at Will Cuppy, the question of relations between things and self-evident facts.
Essay 12 May 2013
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Plato’s Idea of the Teacher
Pedro Blas González
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In this essay, the second of two parts, philosophy professor Pedro Blas González explores critical themes from Plato’s classic dialogue.
Essay 5 May 2013
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Human Nature, Allegory, and Truth in Plato’s Republic
Pedro Blas González
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In this essay, the first of two parts, philosophy professor Pedro Blas González explores critical themes from Plato’s classic dialogue.
Best of the Bookman 5 May 2013
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Thank You, Gerhart Niemeyer
Angelo M. Codevilla
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This concise “Best of the Bookman” essay from 1997 honors the late Notre Dame professor Gerhart Niemeyer, student of Voegelin and authority on ideologies, and suggests some of his enduring legacies—including a very Platonic lesson—were those taught by example.
Best of the Bookman 28 April 2013
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The Conservative Mind Renewed
George H. Nash
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We mark the 60th anniversary of Russell Kirk’s The Conservative Mind in 2013. In this “Best of the Bookman” review from 1979, Senior Fellow George H. Nash reviews the sixth edition on the book’s 25th anniversary.
Review 28 April 2013
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The Misremembered President
John C. Chalberg
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Coolidge by Amity Shlaes. HarperCollins, 2013. Hardback, 565 pages, $35.
Interview 21 April 2013
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Literature and the Call of Faith
an interview by Gerald J. Russello
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The Bookman talks with Gregory Wolfe about contemporary arts, artists, and cultural critics (and what he learned from Russell Kirk) on the occasion of the release of the first novel from his new imprint, Slant Books.
On Essays and Letters 21 April 2013
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On Avoiding ‘Prosperous Wickedness’
James V. Schall, S.J.
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Father Schall reflects on a Rambler essay from 1750.
Symposium 14 April 2013
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Out of the Nursery to College, Back to the Nursery
Robert M. Woods
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A symposium on Fahrenheit 451. Robert M. Woods looks at Anti-Intellectualism and Authentic Learning in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451
Symposium 14 April 2013
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Running About with Lit Matches
Ashlee L. Cowles
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A symposium on Fahrenheit 451. Ashlee Cowles looks at the appeal to the moral imagination in Bradbury's work.
Symposium 14 April 2013
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The Pulpy Roots of ‘Fahrenheit 451’
Thomas F. Bertonneau
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A symposium on Fahrenheit 451. Thomas Bertonneau looks at themes and publishing history in Bradbury's short stories that led up to the great dystopia.
Interview 7 April 2013
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The Marilyn Monroe of Modern Literature
an interview by Gerald J. Russello
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The Bookman interviews Carl Rollyson, author of a new biography of the poet Sylvia Plath, who finds significant parallels between Plath and Marilyn Monroe, subject of one of his earlier biographies.
The ... conservative is concerned, first of all, for the regeneration of spirit and character—with the perennial problem of the inner order of the soul, the restoration of the ethical understanding, and the religious sanction upon which any life worth living is founded. This is conservatism at its highest.
Russell Kirk
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