Editor’s Notes
- Moving Briskly Fall 2011
- Pressing On Summer 2011
- Taking Stock Spring 2011
- Welcome to the New Bookman Winter 2011
- Transition Volume 47, Number 3–4 (Fall 2010)
- A New Era for the Bookman Volume 47, Number 1 (Winter 2010)
- Remembering Russell Kirk Volume 46, Number 4 (Winter 2008)
- Look Homeward Volume 46, Number 3 (Fall 2008)
- Farewells and Looking Ahead Volume 46, Number 2 (Summer 2008)
- The Lives of Others Volume 46, Number 1 (Spring 2008)
- About our Web Exclusives Website Exclusives (2007–2008)
- Reassessing Homo Economicus Volume 45, Number 3 (Fall 2007)
- The Wolfe Who Cried Kirk Volume 45, Number 2 (Spring 2007)
- Tiber, Thames, Potomac Volume 45, Number 1 (Winter 2007)
- Awakening the Moral Imagination Assorted Items from Our Archives
- Permanent Things Here and Abroad Volume 44, Number 3 (Summer 2006)
- Current Problems and Eternal Questions Volume 44, Number 2 (Winter 2006)
- Our Neighbors and the Ground Beneath Us Volume 44, Number 4 (Fall 2006)
- Change and Continuity Volume 44, Number 1 (Fall 2005)
- Welcome and Farewells Volume 44, Number 1 (Fall 2005)
- A Tribute to Russell Kirk Volume 34, Number 2 (Fall 1994)
- Correcting the Record Volume 42, Number 4 (Winter 2003)
A poor man, if he has dignity, honesty, the respect of his neighbors, a realization of his duties, a love of the wisdom of his ancestors, and possibly some taste for knowledge or beauty, is rich in the unbought grace of life.
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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