Russell Kirk played a prominent role in founding and promoting modern conservatism in America—not neoconservatism, but the more traditional variety which emphasizes culture and tradition more than political programs and economics. He is known as the author of The Conservative Mind, The Roots of American Order, The Age of Eliot, and other “conservative” studies and...
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The Roads Both Taken
“Sin maketh nations miserable.” —Proverbs 14:34 In “On the Reading of Old Books,” C.S. Lewis bemoans the fact that so many modern readers study recently written books rather than the classics, which have stood the test of time. This is true even of theology students, about whom Lewis writes: “Whenever you find a little study...
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A Humane Historian
In this book Harriet Owsley remembers the life, friendships, and scholarly career she shared with her husband, Frank Lawrence Owsley. The subtitle of her memoir calls attention to her husband’s field of study as teacher and scholar. His three books on the Old South are definitive, and they are still in print: State Rights in...
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Faith and Freud in the Bayou
A comic religious novel, North Gladiola treats the same region of southeast Louisiana and some of the same characters that James Wilcox introduced to his readers in his first novel, Modern Baptists (Doubleday, 1983). The protagonist of the first novel, bumbling Mr. Pickens, plays a minor role in the second, as do meddling Donna Lee...