The Essential Russell Kirk: Featured Book

by Winston Elliott IIIRussell Kirk

With The Essential Russell Kirk, literary critic George A. Panichas captures the breadth and depth of Kirk’s intellectual project by gathering together forty-four of the most masterful of Kirk’s essays, along with a unique chronology told in Kirk’s own words and a substantial introduction that articulates the deep humanism that animated Kirk’s philosophy. The result is a carefully assembled volume that gives us a fuller picture of an extraordinary man and writer, one whose labors had, and continue to have, remarkable repercussions on the American literary and political landscape.

Books by Russell Kirk are available from The Imaginative Conservative Bookstore. Essays by Dr. Kirk may be found here. [Read more...]

Back at the Libertarian Clinic

by Stephen Masty

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Dr. Himmelman dumped her files onto the common-room table, made a cup of Earl Gray and sat down heavily. It didn’t take a world-famous clinician to see that she was having a bad day.

“Looks like you’re having a bad day,” observed Barbara D’Angelo, a world-famous clinician. “Is it Charles again?” Janet shook her head no and forced a small smile as she stared into her mug. [Read more...]

Freeman’s Robert E. Lee

by Sean BusickFreemansLee

“Teach him he must deny himself,” said Lee.  That was the general’s advice to a young mother who brought her infant to him after the War Between the States to receive his blessing.  In his classic four-volume biography R. E. Lee, Douglas Southall Freeman chose that as the single incident that best exemplifies Robert E. Lee’s message for the young men and women of the South in the reunited nation.  Lee himself, through four years of war, followed by surrender and subjugation, was the very model of Christian self-denial.  Though written in the early twentieth century, Freeman’s biography of Lee contains a vital message for the young men and women of today.  Lee, especially as presented by Freeman, provides an excellent model for young people to emulate.  Freeman’s Lee shows us how to live.  He shows us how to face both triumph and adversity with courage, humility, and grace. [Read more...]