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Robert E. Lee, MLK, and Russell Kirk: No "House United"
• January 19, 2023
• 1,900 Words • 7 Comments • Reply
January 19 is the anniversary of the birth of General Robert E. Lee, perhaps the greatest military commander the United States (or the Confederate States) has ever produced, and certainly one of finest Christian gentleman in the two millennia history of our Western civilization. I was intending to write a piece commemorating that signal event—and... Read More
MLK, Russell Kirk, and the Ignominy of Modern Conservatism
• January 13, 2023
• 2,400 Words • 151 Comments • Reply
For the past forty years (officially since 1986) the third Monday in January has been celebrated as a federal holiday, Martin Luther King Day. Federal and state offices and many businesses either close or go on limited schedules. We are awash with public observances, parades, prayer breakfasts, stepped-up school projects for our unwary and intellectually-abused... Read More
Russell Kirk—the Conservative Giant That Conservatism Inc. Wants to Forget
• February 7, 2016
• 1,700 Words • 67 Comments • Reply
He was once credited as the leading figure of the “Conservative Intellectual Movement” (to borrowGeorge Nash’s phrase) but today Conservatism Inc. wants to keep Russell Kirk in obscurity. Luckily,Bradley Birzer, the Russell Amos Kirk Professor of History at Hillsdale College, has written what may be the definitive Kirk biography Russell Kirk: American Conservative. It will... Read More
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The Real Russell Kirk
• January 7, 2016
• 2,000 Words • 45 Comments • Reply
Russell Kirk: American Conservative. By Bradley J. Birzer. University Press of Kentucky, 2015. 574 pages. When The Conservative Mind was published in 1953, its author, like Lord Byron after the appearance of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage,awoke to find himself famous. Russell Kirk was a hitherto unknown American academic, but Time magazine, which “devoted its entire July... Read More
Wolfe’s Howl
• July 1, 2007
• 2,000 Words • Leave a Comment
It is hard to understand why those who are not cognitively challenged write inexplicably stupid things. Although Professor Allan Wolfe and I would not agree on much politically or philosophically, from all accounts he is an intelligent man. In June 1999 he wrote a reasonably perceptive review of my book After Liberalism for The New... Read More
Russell Kirk's Mistake
• October 27, 2005
• 900 Words • Leave a Comment
The latest commentary by David Brooks in the New York Times (October 25, 2005) on how "Bush has revitalized, rescued the right" illustrates the direction in which the "conservative movement" has been traveling for decades. Brooks thanks Bush for having taken over the country when the Republican Party was "was veering toward isolationism, its immigration... Read More
How Russell Kirk (And the Right) Went Wrong
• November 4, 2004
• 1,300 Words • Leave a Comment
Earlier this year the Philadelphia Society, the conservative affinity group, elected neoconservative matriarch Midge Decter its president. The members apparently accepted their new leader happily and even applauded when she announced that she was not (nor had she ever been) a "neoconservative"— no one in Decter's family or social circle, the members were told, would... Read More
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American Pravda: Oddities of the Jewish Religion • 55m ▶
The Surprising Elements of Talmudic Judaism
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The 7 Tribes of Intellect
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What Race Were the Greeks and Romans?
The evidence is clear — but often ignored
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American Pravda: Understanding World War II • 2h31m ▶
The Shaping Event of Our Modern World
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American Pravda: Holocaust Denial • 2h8m ▶
Analyzing the History of a Controversial Movement
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American Pravda: Mossad Assassinations
The JFK Assassination and the 9/11 Attacks?
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