Russell Kirk: American Conservative
Russell Kirk: American Conservative. Brad Birzer. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. In the past decade and a half, a slew of biographies have been written about…
Russell Kirk: American Conservative. Brad Birzer. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. In the past decade and a half, a slew of biographies have been written about…
A controversial novel when it was first published, Saul Bellow’s Mr. Sammler’s Planet (1970) remains worth revisiting, even though the social and political conflicts of the 1960s…
Bellow’s first novel, Dangling Man (1944), is about a man named Joseph who does not know how to integrate himself in American life without losing the spiritual…
In my recently released co-edited volume, A Political Companion to Saul Bellow, the contributors explore the politics and political thought of one of the seminal fiction writers…
What can Philip Roth tell us about politics today? What can the author of The Human Stain, American Pastoral, and The Plot Against America tell us about…
In the first half of the nineteenth-century, the question of history – its origins, its continuing burden, and the possibility of transcending it – preoccupied American thinkers,…
In a chapter in The Conservative Mind titled “Transitional Conservatism: New England Sketches,” Russell Kirk cited John Quincy Adams, Orestes Brownson, and Nathaniel Hawthorne as figures in…
March 1917: The Red Wheel. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2017. Historians like Eric Hobsbawn had argued that the Russian Revolution was…
Walker Percy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the Search for Influence. Jessica Hooten Wilson. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2017. When suffering from tuberculosis and confined to…
Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice has been interpreted in numerous ways that range from focusing on the roles of women and marriage to examining questions of justice…
Both deontological and classical liberalism have been criticized by communitarian thinkers who contend that liberalism is rooted in an incoherent conception of the self because it fails…
The Law Most Beautiful and Best: Medical Arguments and Magical Rhetoric in Plato's Laws. Randall Baldwin Clark. Lexington Books, 2003. The analogy of politics and medicine…
Knowing Persons: A Study in Plato. Lloyd P. Gerson, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. On the debate whether in antiquity the concept of the person is…
Plato, Metaphysics and the Forms. Francis A. Grabowski III. New York/London: Continuum, 2008. Grabowski approaches the Platonic theory of the Forms as an epistemological problem where…
Why Plato Wrote. Danielle S. Allen. Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. As part of the Blackwell Bristol Lectures Series on Greece, Rome, and the Classical Tradition, Danielle S. Allen has…