May 3, 2013 ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Oh, He’s Just a Biographer

“In every age, society has been relieved only by the endeavors of a few people moved by the grace of God.”—Russell Kirk, Roots Of American Order (1974) As I approach my fifteenth year teaching history at Hillsdale, and my seventeenth (or so) year of teaching at the college level over all, I find myself more [...]

Is It Fair to Bring a Child Into a World With Such a Low Birth Rate?

By John Zmirak|2014-01-08T23:09:41-06:00May 3rd, 2013|Categories: Culture, Marriage, Nature|Tags: John Zmirak|

Imagine a world where a brave array of new technologies has proliferated to meet our human needs by taming nature—yielding a vast increase in wealth, leisure and education. Instead of scrimping like our ancestors at the mercy of forces beyond their ken, we have attained a noble’s sovereignty. Vast swathes of our lives are planted [...]