Volume 43, Nos. 2–4 (Fall 2004)
Contents
Review 29 March 2007
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Conservatives and the Environmental Question
a review by Tobias Lanz
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Hard Green: Saving the Environment from the Environmentalists;
A Conservative Manifesto
by Peter Huber.
Basic Books (New York, New York), 224 pp.,
$15.00 paper, 1999.
The Greening of Conservative America
by John R. E. Bliese.
Westview Press (Boulder, Colorado),
339 pp., $33.00 paper, 2001.
Essay 29 March 2007
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A Conversation with Joseph Pearce
by James E. Person, Jr.
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Review 29 March 2007
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Behold the Reign of Man!
a review by Thomas F. Bertonneau
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Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt: Toward a Secular
Theocracy
by Paul Gottfried.
University of Missouri Press (Columbia and London) 158 pp., $34.95 cloth, 2002.
Review 29 March 2007
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The Philosopher Poet
a review by Paul A. Cantor
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Of Philosophers and Kings: Political Philosophy in Shakespeare’s
Macbeth and King Lear
by Leon Harold Craig.
University of Toronto Press (Toronto, Canada),
406 pp., $29.95 paper, 2001.
Also in this Issue
Editors’ Note | 3
A Man for All Seasons
dramatic dialogue as “a dyadic nonlinear
feedback system” | 10
Shakespeare’s Twenty-First-Century
Economics, by Frederick Turner
reviewed by R. V. Young
shakespeare as guide to the christian life | 15
The Trial of Man: Christianity
and Judgment in the World of Shakespeare, by Craig Bernthal
reviewed by Jim Bond
speaking of shakespeare: G.
K. Chesterton and the Wealth of being | 20
Chesterton on Shakespeare, by
Dorothy Collins
reviewed
by David M. Whalen
Frivolity and seriousness: auden
on Shakespeare | 25
Lectures on Shakespeare, by W. H. Auden, reconstructed
and edited by Arthur Kirsch
reviewed by Amy Fahey
the history of a mind | 42
A Mind’s Matter: An Intellectual
Autobiography, by Stanley L. Jaki
reviewed by D. J. Mullan
“the feminine mistake” | 47
Forced Labor, by Brian C. Anderson
Feminist Fantasies, by Phyllis Schlafly
reviewed
by Noel Black
a different kind of skeptic | 52
The Sense of Beauty, by George Santayana,
with
a new introduction by John McCormick
reviewed by James
Seaton
On Essays and Letters | 63
“Unlike the Spider in the Window: ‘To
Chuse, is to Do’ ”
by James V. Schall, S.J.
REFLECTIONS
The Newsletter of the Edmund Burke Society
Essay | 67
Burke or Rousseau? The Meiji Constitution in
Early Modern Japan
by Hiro Aida
Review: The Situation of Man | 71
Edmund Burke of Beaconsfield, by
Elizabeth Lambert
reviewed by John Faulkner
Essay: history and place | 76
by Joseph T. Stuart
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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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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