Samuel McClelland
Our poems, songs, and tales give us a sense that there is continuity in history and that we fit into it. But what sort of continuity? And what, if anything, should we
do about it? In
The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky grapples with some of the most compelling meta-narratives that have ever shaped our experience of life as temporal beings.
Filed: Book Reviews, Featured Essays, Theology, Uncategorized · Tags: Alyosha, Andreas Kinneging, Condorcet, Dostoevsky, Hobbes, Locke, meta-narrative, naturalism, Nietzsche, philosophy of history, Rousseau, Russian literature, The Brothers Karamazov, traditional piety, Zosima
Russell Kirk
For decades now, mainstream educators have been encouraging their pupils to use their imaginations - even as the literary fare they've been offering has increasingly had the opposite effect. Russell Kirk brings his characteristic perspicacity to bear on the question of literature and the "moral imagination" in a classic essay that has only grown more relevant since it first appeared in 1981.
Frits Bolkestein
In a selection from his forthcoming book
The Intellectual Temptation, former European Commissioner Frits Bolkestein suggests that an academic obsession with abstract theory over hard-won experience lies behind our political and cultural crises. Bolkestein takes us from centralization through multiculturalism to cultural self-flagellation: ideals - or ideologies - that define the landscape of contemporary Western Europe.
Filed: Articles / Essays, Featured Essays, Uncategorized · Tags: colonialism, Counterculture, Development aid, European Union, ideology, imperialism, Intellectuals, Multiculturalism, Public intellectuals, Rousseau, Russian revolution, student protests
Vigen Guroian
In every society, power must be humanized and used morally in order that free and civilized life might prosper. And in a commercial society, businessmen and businesswomen wield especially great power and are frequently called into roles of civic and political leadership. So, why should they read great literature?
Stephen Gatlin
A review of Rob Rieman's
Nobility of Spirit.
Joseph Bottum in the
New Criterion has commented ably on some of the strengths and the signal weaknesses of Rieman’s book. My concerns here are not intended to overlap substantially with Bottum’s. Indeed, both Riemen’s and Bottum’s observations are well taken. By now, the demise of civilization (whatever this word may mean) is perhaps the greatest cliché among intellectuals everywhere. Mass society, especially perhaps of the American variety, is likely the most perturbing. The eminent Jacques Barzun has had the last word on this grand lament.
By: Jonathan David Price
Jesus Ascended
Gerrit Scott Dawson.
P&R Publishing, 2004.
(paperback) 192pp.
What starts as ostensible Christology in Dawson’s Jesus Ascended quickly reveals itself to be Pneumatology, the study of the Holy Spirit, in disguise. In the forward to the book, we learn that Christ sends down “his own personal presence in the Holy Spirit” (Dawson xii, my … Read more
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