Luke C. Sheahan, PhD

Author: WHY ASSOCIATIONS MATTER; Associate Professor, @Duqedu; Editor, @UBookman

[Luke C. Sheahan, PhD @lsheahan]

Absolutely banger essay at @ubookman on the great Hungarian historian John Lukács.

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John Rodden on John Lukács: The Consciousness—and Conscience—of an Historian @ISI @yalepress @doubledaybooks @AAKnopf

[Luke C. Sheahan, PhD @lsheahan]

The Unity of Mankind and the Conversation of Civilizations is a rich resource for Voegelin scholars to consult for their own academic and intellectual pursuits. It revisits one of Voegelin’s most controversial works and treats it with the careful academic probing and intellectual curiosity that The Ecumenic Age provokes. - @lee_trepanier on new volume on Voegelin

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Continually Revising History
@lee_trepanier on "The Unity of Mankind and the Conversation of Civilizations. Reflections on the Basis of Eric Voegelin’s The Ecumenic Age" (Eric Voegelin Studies) Edited by Axel Bark and Harald Bergbauer.

[Luke C. Sheahan, PhD @lsheahan]

Just in time to ramp up to the 250th!

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Toward an American Iliad
Thomas Philbrick on "American Independence in Verse"
by @bradford_skow

[Luke C. Sheahan, PhD @lsheahan]

On that score Chesterton was convinced of two things when it came to Russia and America. In the first place the Soviet revolution would ultimately fail because it ran against human nature, meaning our natural desire to own things. And in the second place the sexual revolution would likely and unfortunately succeed because it ran directly parallel with our fallen human nature. - Chalberg on Loftin's CHESTERTON AND THE PHILOSOPHERS

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G. K. Chesterton, Friend of Truth
Chuck Chalberg on "Chesterton and the Philosophers"
Edited by Landon Loftin. @wipfandstock

[Russell Kirk Center @KirkCenter]

One week away...This year, we celebrate the Dec of Independence @ 250. What exactly are we celebrating? Join us for a Book Gallery on 6/22 @ 7pm ET w/Michael Lucchese & @lsheahan as we discuss Kirk’s views on the American founding and the American order: https://t.co/31Dkrnq9CC

[Luke C. Sheahan, PhD @lsheahan]

@PhilipDBunn You will

[Luke C. Sheahan, PhD @lsheahan]

@sfmcguire79 Glad to see them finally get with the program.

[Luke C. Sheahan, PhD @lsheahan]

The advice I received on publishing my first semester of grad school was to use publications to either join a school of thought or to pick a fight.

Advice to survive in academia is more or less the same as surviving prison: kick someone’s —- or become someone’s ——.

[James Matthew Wilson @JMWSPT]

This is academic writing 101. With my graduate students, we spend the first three weeks of the semester, sifting through piles of monographs, so that each one can choose a personal enemy to guide all future research projects. They then create a target diagram using the indexes from their chosen authors and create an "inverted critical lexicon" to counter that author's pretenses. From there, the work practically writes itself.

[Russell Kirk Center @KirkCenter]

This year, we celebrate the Declaration of Independence. What exactly are we celebrating? Join us for a Book Gallery on 6/22 at 7pm ET with Michael Lucchese and @lsheahan as we discuss Kirk’s views on the American founding and the American order. Sign up: https://t.co/31Dkrnq9CC

[Luke C. Sheahan, PhD @lsheahan]

I agree.

[Christopher J. Scalia @cjscalia]

I have noticed that Millennials and other immature Americans pronounce the word *niche* in the pretentious French manner ("neesh") rather than the traditional 'Murican way ("nitch") and we won't get our country back on track until that changes.

[Luke C. Sheahan, PhD @lsheahan]

@pleonidasp @Heritage Congratulations!

[Eric Adler @ProfEricAdler]

The great Harvard humanist Irving Babbitt (1865-1933) discusses his early intellectual development in a previously unpublished essay I edited for the latest number of the journal *Humanitas*.

Interested humanists, take a look:

https://t.co/oGDNeXeLUX

[James Matthew Wilson @JMWSPT]

It appears that I have been invited to Washington, DC, for the week before July 4th, to recite my poems commemorating the American Revolution, on the National Mall.

[Luke C. Sheahan, PhD @lsheahan]

"Fiction helps expand our imagination and our mercy for others. To read a collection like this one is to be taught to feel deeply and pastorally. I have not felt the desire to weep when reading O’Connor’s stories, yet Cyr’s invite such emotion more readily from us." - @NadyaWilliams81 on Eric Cyr's HERE IT SNOWS IN JUNE" @WisebloodBooks

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The Midwestern Gothic Stories of Eric Cyr
@NadyaWilliams81 on "Here It Snows in June & Other Stories" by Eric Cyr. @WisebloodBooks

[Luke C. Sheahan, PhD @lsheahan]

" The twenty-first century has been referred to as a time of 'liquid modernity.' Life in the digital age (an age that is rapidly shifting into the age of AI) is liquid because everything seems to be in a state of flux and shift. Laws and morals seem to shift on a day to day basis. What was once evil is now good, and the landscape of both the online as well as real world seems to shift constantly. One of the biggest slippery elements of contemporary life is religious faith." - Jesse Russell on Jonathan Sheehan's ON THE ALTAR @PrincetonUPress

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And I Will Go to the Altar of God
Jesse Russell reviews "On the Altar: A History of Sacrifice from the Sacred to the Secular" by Jonathan Sheehan. @PrincetonUPress

[Luke C. Sheahan, PhD @lsheahan]

"Biggar’s short but important book gives us a new twist on the old aphorism, 'A conservative is a liberal who has been mugged.' The updated version is: "A conservative is a liberal who has met a cancel mob.'" - @DrGeneCallahan on Nigel Biggar's THE NEW DARK AGE @politybooks

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A Liberal Who Met the Cancel Mob
@DrGeneCallahan "The New Dark Age: Why Liberals Must Win the Culture Wars" by Nigel Biggar.
@politybooks

[Russell Kirk Center @KirkCenter]

"On America", a new collection of Kirk essays, would make a wonderful graduate gift, or Father's Day gift this month. Pick up your copy here: https://t.co/cIaRSAwaHs

From June 1-July 30 use promo code KIRKCENTER20 to receive a 20% discount at checkout.

[Luke C. Sheahan, PhD @lsheahan]

Received mine just a couple days ago!

[Tony Williams @TWilliamsAuthor]

Signed more copies to send out today!

Publication Day is Tuesday! 🥳

[Luke C. Sheahan, PhD @lsheahan]

Why we can’t have nice things.

[Emerald Apple @AI_EmeraldApple]

Amazon cancelled the new Stargate show.

The rumor is that the show writer, Martin Gero, would not budge on compromising lore or elements within the show for a "wider modern audience" as they did with Rings of Power for LoTR lore.

Martin Gero wanted to create a show that maintained continuity in the story and lore of the old shows, including the mythology and tech, while respecting the 17 seasons of history.

Amazon instead wanted something new for the "modern audience" that's more accessible, reimagined, with more modern casual sensibilities.

Because the showrunners wanted to maintain integrity rather than turn Stargate into another "modern audience slop" like Rings of Power, Amazon leadership canceled it. The franchise heavyweight, like Joseph Mallozzi, was very excited for the fresh stories Gero worked on. Amazon says they are still open to Stargate, just not "this" version... yes they wanted to Rings of Powerify Stargate.

We really can't hate these people enough.

[Russell Kirk Center @KirkCenter]

Can love or forgiveness overcome America’s fractures? Hren masterfully weaves the answer through various characters in his new “Blue Walls Falling Down." @DavidGBonaguraJ praises the novel as a tragic examination of racial politics, loneliness, and extremism in today's America.