A “conservative character [is] suspicious of doctrinaire alteration, respectful toward history, preferring variety over uniformity, acknowledging a moral order composed of human persons, not of mere political and economic atoms subservient to the state.”
Russell Kirk, A Program for Conservatives, 1954
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Here’s a round-up of recent writings by Bookman editor Gerald Russello elsewhere on the Internet and in print. • At the Imaginative Conservative Russello responds to Claes Ryn’s argument that conservatives have failed the culture. • He reviews Gregory Wolfe’s Beauty Will Save the World in the October edition of Chronicles. • At the National Catholic Register he discusses a recent Colorado religious liberty case denying families access to funds for private education, based on an outdated reading of a bigoted “Blaine”-style amendment. • In The Wilson Quarterly, he reviews Why Trilling Matters. (15 Oct 2011)
The Imaginative Conservative blog has posted an excerpt and link to an essay by Pepperdine’s Ted McAllister on Kirk’s Conservative Mind that is worth a look: “What was then more readily an act of preservation has become today an act of recovery.” (1 Oct 2011)
Gerald Russello reviews Michael Toth’s book on founding father Oliver Ellsworth in the Wall Street Journal: “Uniting the Nation.” (25 Sep 2011)
Other Sites of Interest
- The Imaginative Conservative
- Arts & Letters Daily
- First Things
- Manhattan Institute
- City Journal
- National Review
- The Heritage Foundation
- Ethics and Public Policy Center
- Books & Culture
- The New Atlantis
- The New Criterion (and blog)
- Intercollegiate Studies Institute
- First Principles Journal
- The Acton Institute
- The New Inquiry
- Reconciling Remus and Rome (Andrea Kirk Assaf)
- Image (Image)
- Good Letters Blog
- The American Spectator
- The American Conservative
- Front Porch Republic
- Anamnesis Journal
- The City (from HBU)
- Lapham’s Quarterly
- Bookworm from KCRW
- G. K. Chesterton Institute
- The Catholic Thing
- What’s Wrong with the World?
- The Western Confucian
- The Tocqueville Forum
- National Humanities Institute
- The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College
- Ricochet
- Chronicles
- Arion
- Via Meadia at The American Interest
- The Distributist Review
- Journal of Catholic Legal Studies
- The Library of Law and Liberty
- Huron County Extract
Publisher Sites
- Yale University Press
- Eerdmans
- Harvard University Press
- Catholic University Press
- Princeton University Press
- Encounter Books
- Ivan R. Dee
- Oxford University Press
- Cambridge University Press
- University of Chicago Press
- Farrar Straus Giroux
- St Augustine’s Press
- Ignatius Press
- University of Missouri Press
- The University Press of Kentucky
- The Crumpled Press