"Whether the racial left or the radical right, whether the unmarried women or the immature men of today can do the same is not answered. By shining light on the excesses of both, Hren shows us the paths not to take." — David Bonagura @AngelicoPress
"Rediscovering the lost ideal of leisure is highly worthwhile regardless of whether we are headed for a world in which humans need not apply for most jobs." — Robert Rich
My latest: How can both trends be happening at the same time? The answer is probably obvious to most Catholics who have been around for a while.
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"In his rich and thorough exploration of not only Shakespeare’s thoughts but also the course of Western thinking, David Womersley demonstrates that ideas do matter, and that Shakespeare is bigger than the harsh but ultimately timid emotions of our age." — Jesse Russell
"Might a revival of our degraded culture, or at least its verse, be possible? A recent collection titled Killing Orpheus from Forester McClatchey, a graduate of Hillsdale College, inspires hope that the times may yet be redeemed." — Camilo Peraltra
"Every element of the novella comes together to make it refreshing and pleasant to read. @paul_jkrause proves that it is indeed possible to tell a compelling story with subtlety and depth without resorting to subversion, snark, or cynical gimmicks." — Auguste Meyrat
A Heroic Little Sparrow Shines Brightly in the Dark World of Children’s Literature
Auguste Meyrat on "The Incredible Adventure of Passer the Sparrow" by @paul_jkrause@resourcepubs
“Her accounts inspire reflection on the allure of Roman Catholicism … specifically its stress on authority, tradition, and dogma, its aesthetics (especially liturgical), and its forceful critique of predominant secularist ideologies and systems.” — Adam Schwartz
Catholic or Nothing
Adam Schwartz on "Converts: From Oscar Wilde to Muriel Spark, Why So Many Became Catholic in the 20th Century" by Melanie McDonagh. @yalepress
"The images @SarahSoltis02 conjures are accordingly rooted in Scripture, mythology, and modern works such as T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets. In this way, the timelessness of Reardon’s message echoes throughout the pages of her book." — Annmarie McLaughlin
"In the end, therefore, Solzhenitsyn’s brilliant and thought-provoking speeches amount to a compelling plaidoyer for personal accountability, responsibility, and self-restraint; a plea for the value of life as one steady effort of continuous 'moral ascent.'" — William Scott
Solzhenitsyn and the Spirituality of Self-Limitation
William Scott on "We Have Ceased to See the Purpose: Essential Speeches of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn" @UNDPress
The Russell Kirk Center has secured an outstanding instructor, one of the nation’s foremost Burke scholars, Gregory Collins, to lead a virtual master class on Edmund Burke’s thought and legacy. Applications are due by Feb 13. @GregCollins111
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"Don Quixote makes life the protagonist. The affirmation of life is truly Don Quixote’s quest. The venerable knight-errant seeks more than life from his life." — Pedro Blas Gonzalez.
Heidi White’s debut book, The Divided Soul, blends memoir and literature to explore how duty and desire might be brought into harmony. A thoughtful review by Gary Hartenburg (@har10burg).
Join us tomorrow night, 9.2.25 at 7:00pmfor a live virtual lecture, “An Evening with Christopher Dawson: Introducing a Historian of Culture.” Joseph T. Stuart will introduce us to this great British historian of ideas followed by a Q&A. Register here: https://t.co/PCXHEI5vLB
Special thanks to the more than 130 participants and 22 speakers from around the world who joined us June 27-28 for an international conference, “Prospects for an Anglo- American Conservatism in the Tradition of Russell Kirk and Roger Scruton.”