Il pensiero conservatore. Da Burke a Eliot

I decided to read this book because of the recent election to try to get a sharper sense of one strand of . Whatever ideology Trump and his ilk are promulgating (white nationalism? reaction? populism) it is a far cry from Kirk's highly traditional, religiously orthodox, and stuffy conservatism. And

For most of human history, change has been a glacier -- slow to move, retreating as much as it advances. Since the scientific and industrial revolutions, however, change is less a glacier and more a snowball, moving with rapidity, becoming ever more drastic, and picking up speed. Russell Kirk would

Having read a fair deal of Russell Kirk before finally turning to The Conservative Mind , this first and best-known of his works didn't hold many surprises. In fact, for me it tended most to reveal the foundations of Kirk's conservative mind, as the reader familiar with his later writings can see how Leggi tutto

Excellent.

When published by Russell Kirk in 1953, “Conservative Mind” was an oxymoron to morons, such were the stultifying orthodoxies of liberal thought. While it still may appear so to some, Russell’s grounding of the conservative American tradition “From Burke to Eliot” in fact gave a significant push to a Leggi tutto

This is a monumental book. Russell Kirk has done yeoman’s work in reading, analyzing, and distilling centuries of conservative thought, and he has compiled it in an well-written, accessible manner. You will not find here a systematic treatise on conservativism. Instead, Kirk focuses on several indiv Leggi tutto

We are yanking free the anchors, worrying loose the cables, and where once this was effected with radical fervor, it's now a consequence of indolence, of decay, of corruption. Our politics are dominated by preeners who speak as utopians and govern as apparatchiks. Our news is brought to us by people Leggi tutto