The author of All the King’s Men understood agrarianism not as a political program but as a spiritual corrective to the evils of modern life.
Jerusalem, Athens, London, and Philadelphia made American civilization possible. Now five other symbolic cities threaten to be our downfall.
Is there anything truly “new” about the New Urbanism, or has government sabotaged the movement? There is much urban planners can learn from Russell Kirk, whose ideas on the subject remain vital.
Cinema Paradiso debuted thirty years ago this month, to much acclaim and ultimately an Academy Award. But even though much ink has been spilled explaining its memorable ending, Gerald Russello says it may not mean what you think.
The literalism of language stripped of its metaphysical level of meaning impoverishes the soul—and bores the reader.
To forget the first president is to forget the qualities that made him such an influential figure in American history.
V. S. Naipaul’s novels continue to transcend the fashionable trends in literature because he confronted the themes that have marked the greatest works of fiction.
The rise of a populist government in Hungary terrifies the EU and all enemies of national sovereignty.
Twenty-five years ago, an essay entitled “The Clash of Civilizations?” was published. Was its thesis simplistic and arbitrary, or prophetic?
Russell Kirk’s “Gothic Mind” expressed itself in original ghost and horror stories haunted by a Presence that pointed to the transcendent.
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