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15. Mai 2024 · A new book examines the fiction of “The Wizard of Mecosta,” known best perhaps for his exploring the conservative mind and pinpointing those enemies of the permanent things. The publication of Camilo Peralta’s The Wizard of Mecosta: Russell Kirk, Gothic Fiction, and the Moral Imagination by Vernon Press is an exciting development.
28. Mai 2024 · Kirk outlined many of these principles in his landmark book, The Conservative Mind. They ranged from “belief in a transcendent order, or body of natural law” to the conviction “that freedom and property are closely linked” and that “hasty innovation may be a devouring conflagration, rather than a torch of progress.”.
15. Mai 2024 · Russell Kirk and the Providence of Permanence. At the 30th anniversary of his death, the man of Mecosta still evinces a wisdom that is enduring—one might even say permanent. James P. Pinkerton.
- James P. Pinkerton
Vor 2 Tagen · Donald Henry Rumsfeld (July 9, 1932 – June 29, 2021) was an American politician, government official and businessman who served as Secretary of Defense from 1975 to 1977 under president Gerald Ford, and again from 2001 to 2006 under President George W. Bush. [1] [2] He was both the youngest and the oldest secretary of defense. [3]
17. Mai 2024 · His The Conservative Mind, now 70 years old, was the magnum opus of conservative intellectual thought which highlighted for readers during the height of post-New Deal liberalism the venerable conservative tradition as Kirk saw and understood it.
17. Mai 2024 · And in some ways the most influential American writer of conservative instincts was Nathaniel Hawthorne, the “boned pirate,” the master of allegory, that humorous, melancholy man obsessed with the problems of conscience. Awake equally to the terrible and the comic, he was at once an active politician and an abstracted dreamer. It ...
15. Mai 2024 · Russell Kirk’s “The Conservative Mind,” first published in 1953, is a comprehensive survey of conservative thought from Edmund Burke to the mid-20th century. Kirk’s work is instrumental in defining and legitimizing conservatism as a coherent intellectual tradition. He emphasizes
