Darrell Falconburg

Academic Program Officer @KirkCenter | Humanities Editor @ubookman | Assistant Editor @voegelin_view

[Michigan Enjoyer @mich_enjoyer]

This Little Village Is Home to a Conservative Icon's Estate @owroot
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[Darrell Falconburg @darrellfalconbu]

"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

[The University Bookman @ubookman]

Yearning and Collapsing
@DavidGBonaguraJ on "Blue Walls Falling Down" by Joshua Hren @AngelicoPress

[Darrell Falconburg @darrellfalconbu]

"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

[The University Bookman @ubookman]

Preparing for Leisure
Robert Rich on "The Leisure Ethic: The End of Work and a Return to Virtue" by David Edward Tabachnick.
@utpress

[MartinCothran @MartinCothran]

Muggeridge deserves a revival.

[Barbarian Herodotus @BBHerodotus]

American novelist Flannery O'Connor’s Andalusia farm in Georgia.

[David P Deavel @davidpdeavel]

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.

Link in replies.

[Darrell Falconburg @darrellfalconbu]

"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

[The University Bookman @ubookman]

Shakespeare Forever
Jesse Russell on "Thinking Through Shakespeare" by David Womersley. @PrincetonUPress

[Darrell Falconburg @darrellfalconbu]

"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

[The University Bookman @ubookman]

Poetry of Transcendence
Camilo Peralta on "Killing Orpheus" by @fhmcclatchey. Carnegie Mellon University Press.

[VoegelinView @voegelin_view]

Can a book by Sir Walter Scott help us navigate the political and cultural times we are in?
https://t.co/WMvfC8Hx2u

[Darrell Falconburg @darrellfalconbu]

"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

[The University Bookman @ubookman]

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

[Darrell Falconburg @darrellfalconbu]

“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

[The University Bookman @ubookman]

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

[Darrell Falconburg @darrellfalconbu]

"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

[The University Bookman @ubookman]

Words from the Hearth
Annmarie McLaughlin on "Home Songs" by @SarahSoltis02. Reviewed by Annmarie McLaughlin.

[Darrell Falconburg @darrellfalconbu]

"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

[The University Bookman @ubookman]

Solzhenitsyn and the Spirituality of Self-Limitation
William Scott on "We Have Ceased to See the Purpose: Essential Speeches of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn" @UNDPress

[Darrell Falconburg @darrellfalconbu]

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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[Darrell Falconburg @darrellfalconbu]

"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.

[The University Bookman @ubookman]

Why Don Quixote Matters
Pedro Blas Gonzalez on Cervantes' classic.
@PenguinBooks

[Darrell Falconburg @darrellfalconbu]

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).

[The University Bookman @ubookman]

Humane Literature and the Divided Soul
Gary Hartenburg on "The Divided Soul: Duty and Desire in Literature and Life" by Heidi White.

[Dappled Things @DappledThings1]

Our archives are full of treasures. Check out this gem from Darrell Falconburg on The Way of Beauty in Dante — Dappled Things https://t.co/lIMkqE2Ap7

[Darrell Falconburg @darrellfalconbu]

This lecture is happening this evening. It's a good chance to learn about an important thinker who is not often known in the U.S.

[Russell Kirk Center @KirkCenter]

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

[Darrell Falconburg @darrellfalconbu]

@MartinCothran A very impressive talk!

[Russell Kirk Center @KirkCenter]

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.”