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Volume 43, Number 1 (Fall 2003)

Contents

Review 29 March 2007
Vile Bodies
a review by John S. Reist, Jr.
USA Today: The Stunning Incoherence of American Civilization by Reid Buckley. P. E. N. Press (North Carolina), 442 pp. + index, $22.95 cloth, 2002.
Review 29 March 2007
On Not Thinking in Slogans
a review by Robert Heineman
The American Cause by Russell Kirk. Edited with a new Introduction by Gleaves Whitney. ISI Books (Wilmington, Delaware), xxii, 169 pp., $13.00 paper, 2002.
Review 29 March 2007
A Touchstone of Eloquence and Wisdom
a review by James E. Person, Jr.
Creed & Culture: A Touchstone Reader Edited with an introduction by James M. Kushiner. ISI Books (Wilmington, Delaware), xv + 239 pp., $15.00 paper, 2003.
Review 29 March 2007
The Reserved Powers of the Tenth Amendment
a review by Marshall DeRosa
The Tenth Amendment and State Sovereignty: Constitutional History and Contemporary Issues Edited by Mark R. Killenbeck. Roman & Littlefield and Berkeley Public Policy Press (Lanham, Maryland), 206 pp., $69.00 cloth, $28.95 paper, 2001.
Review 29 March 2007
Decline and Fall
a review by Thomas F. Bertonneau
At the End of an Age by John Lukacs. Yale University Press (New Haven, Connecticut), 240pp., $22.95 cloth, 2002.
Essay 29 March 2007
Ernest van den Haag (1914–2002)
by George H. Nash
In Memoriam
Review 29 March 2007
The Virgin and the Dynamo
a review by Joshua P. Hochschild
The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness by Virginia Postrel. HarperCollins (New York), 237 pp. $24.95 cloth, 2003. The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress by Virginia Postrel. The Free Press (New York), 265 pp. $25.00 cloth, 1998; Touchstone (New York), $13.00 paper, 1999.
Best of the Bookman 26 February 2012
book cover Outposts of Culture
by Gerald J. Russello
The Criterion: Cultural Politics and Periodical Networks in Inter-War Britain by Jason Harding. Oxford University Press (New York, New York) 250 pp., $55.00 cloth, 2002.

Also in this Issue

Editors’ Note | 3

Shall These Bones Live?

buckley’s “eternal verities” | 14

Let Us Talk of Many Things: The Collected Speeches,
by William F. Buckley Jr.
reviewed by William F. Meehan III

outposts of culture | 43

The Criterion: Cultural Politics and Periodical Networks in Inter-War Britain,
by Jason Harding
reviewed by Gerald J. Russello

On Essays and Letters | 46

“The One Good Thing to Do with Money”
by James V. Schall, S.J.

REFLECTIONS
The Newsletter of the Edmund Burke Society

Editorial: the quotable burke | 49

Essay:

The uses of Burke’s youthful writings | 51
by Steven P. Millies

Essay:

Edmund Burke: Christian Statesman | 57 (read this essay)
by Francis Canavan, S.J.

Review:

The Principles of True Politics | 59 (read this review)
A Moral Enterprise: Essays in Honor of Francis Canavan
reviewed by Ian Crowe

Review:

A Giddy Harbinger of Madness | 61
The Last Alchemist by Iain McCalman
reviewed by Stephen Holt

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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The Kirk Center and The University Bookman regret the passing of sociologist Irving Louis Horowitz, who died in March. Recipient of many accolades, Horowitz was a sociologist of wide-ranging interests, from religion to analysis of state power and social order in assessing a society’s quality of life, an approach that has since become standard. Horowitz has a special place in the memory of the Kirk Center. It is he who made possible the Library of Conservative Thought, a collection of more than thirty volumes published by Transaction Press, with which Horowitz was long affiliated, and edited by Russell Kirk. These thirty-odd volumes constitute a basic reading list for the educated conservative, and include classics such as James Burnham’s Congress and the American Tradition, Irving Babbitt’s Rousseau and Romanticism, Orestes Brownson’s Selected Political Essays, and Kirk’s own America’s British Culture. These books brought the tradition of conservative reflection to a new generation, and rightly placed them alongside other important works of sociology, intellectual history, and politics. In his eulogy for Russell Kirk, given at Kirk’s Memorial Mass in 1994, Horowitz stated that Kirk was now “at one with the great tradition he helped articulate and recover”—words that also aptly describe the legacy of Irving Louis Horowitz. RIP. (17 Apr 2012)

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)

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