Website Exclusives (2009)
Contents
Interview 4 January 2009
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Examining our Techological Assumptions
an interview by The Editors
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An interview with Christine Rosen
Essay 10 January 2009
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Richard John Neuhaus, RIP
by Gerald J. Russello, Editor
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Symposium 10 February 2009
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Is Conservatism Dead?
by Joseph P. Duggan, Austin Bramwell, Daniel McCarthy, Lee Edwards, James Poulos, and Roger Kimball
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A symposium in response to “Conservatism is Dead” by Sam Tanenhaus
Interview 20 February 2009
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Original Meaning and Judicial Restraint
an interview by the Editors
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An Interview with M. Edward Whelan III
Review 18 May 2009
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Marshall McLuhan: Postmodern Grammarian
a review by Joseph P. Duggan
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The Classical Trivium: The Place of Thomas Nashe in the Learning of His Time
by Marshall McLuhan
Edited by W. Terrence Gordon
Gingko Press (Corte Madera, Calif.)
356 pp., $39.96 Cloth, 2005.
The Medium and the Light: Reflections on Religion
by Marshall McLuhan.
Edited by Eric McLuhan and Jacek Szklarek
Stoddart (Toronto)
219 pp., $22.95 Paper, 1999
Review 2 June 2009
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Forgotten Constitutional Founders
a review by Gerald J. Russello
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An Incautious Man: The Life of Gouverneur Morris by Melanie Miller (ISI Books 2008, $25.00).
Forgotten Founder, Drunken Prophet: The Life of Luther Martin by Bill Kauffman (ISI Books 2008, $25.00).
Interview 16 June 2009
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The Freedom to Use Common Sense
an interview by The Editors
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An interview with Philip K. Howard, author of Life without Lawyers
Interview 29 June 2009
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The Predicament of the Individual
an interview by the Editors
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An interview with James Poulos, editor of the Postmodern Conservative blog.
A culture is perennially in need of renewal. A culture does not survive and prosper merely by being taken for granted; active defense is always required, and imaginative growth, too.
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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