A Last-Minute Christmas Gift Guide for Conservatives

By |2016-12-18T15:12:42-06:00December 18th, 2016|Categories: Christmas, Gifts for Imaginative Conservatives, Julie Baldwin|

Let us see gift-giving less as an obligation or a buy-in to the commercialism of the season, and more as a sign of affection... It’s less than a week till Christmas, and you realize that you cannot give Brad Birzer’s Russell Kirk: American Conservative biography to every member of your family. What to do?! Have no [...]

Kindred Spirits and the Art of Friendship

By |2018-05-30T12:04:51-05:00January 18th, 2014|Categories: Books, Julie Baldwin|

Looking for Anne of Green Gables: the Story of L.M. Montgomery and Her Literary Classic by Irene Gammel “You’re young, and I’m old, but our souls are about the same age, I reckon. We both belong to the race that knows Joseph, as Cornelia Bryant would say.” “‘The race that knows Joseph?’” puzzled Anne. “Yes. [...]

Born Without A Mask: Second Album from Mumford and Sons

By |2014-12-09T11:28:57-06:00January 7th, 2014|Categories: Culture, Julie Baldwin|

When I first read “Against Mumford” by Matthew Schmitz at First Thoughts, I wondered if we had listened to the same songs. Schmitz’s review of English folk-rock band Mumford and Sons’s second album “Babel” applauds the negativity of critics and belittles the praise of fans. His snarky critiques are unjust and lack an appreciation for [...]

Gifts for Imaginative Conservatives: The ABCs of Gift Giving

By |2016-07-26T15:33:06-05:00December 13th, 2013|Categories: Christmas, Culture, Gifts for Imaginative Conservatives, Julie Baldwin|

If it’s two weeks till Christmas and you haven’t bought most of your Christmas presents (like me), you’re in luck! This is your chance to prove your creativity, with my expertise in responding to panicky situations. I’m currently typing this with one hand while my other hand holds a binky in my infant’s mouth. Yes, [...]

The Southern Critics: An Anthology

By |2015-11-10T17:53:03-06:00April 4th, 2012|Categories: Andrew Lytle, Books, Julie Baldwin, South, Southern Agrarians|

The Southern Critics: An Anthology Edited by Glenn C. Arbery, ISI Books A Southern critic by any other name would be an Agrarian or Fugitive. Four of the writers featured in this book defended their way of life against modernity 80 years ago at Vanderbilt University in “I’ll Take My Stand.” The others given voice here [...]

Theology on Tap

By |2016-08-03T10:37:36-05:00February 17th, 2012|Categories: Books, Christendom, Julie Baldwin|

In college, the Dogwood Society (my major’s academic honorary) was a little platoon of love and laughs. The handful of us would send encouraging notes during our regular all-night writing sessions, pass around humorous takes on American history and politics, and would periodically get together for “Founding Fridays” to share in fellowship over a few brews. Though [...]

Can’t Get No Satisfaction

By |2014-12-09T11:25:29-06:00December 6th, 2011|Categories: Existence of God, Julie Baldwin, Poetry, Truth|

Julie Baldwin “Sationes” : A poem about Satisfaction It amuses when you talk of doing things As if our calender was thus dictated, like the days of kings, and instead of replying, I let my mind wander: Feeling sorry for those who fill the clock and don’t ponder The un-amusing and ordinary act [...]

Serve to Conserve? Yes We Can!

By |2016-02-16T14:32:51-06:00November 14th, 2011|Categories: American Republic, Communio, Julie Baldwin, Pat Buchanan, Pope Benedict XVI, St. John Paul II|

Upon the prompting of Stephen Masty, I’d like to explore “what still really exists in America that is worth conserving and what may be, quite frankly, lost to all but memory.” Reid Buckley has declared that he cannot love our country because we are vile. Morally corrupt and bankrupt, we’ve even given Pat Buchanan license to doubt. [...]

Books Don’t Make Us Human

By |2014-12-09T11:19:01-06:00September 16th, 2011|Categories: Books, Books that Make Us Human, Julie Baldwin|

Can books make us human or are we born human? I would like to re-word the thesis of this symposium, and present my list of books that are known to make people humane, and thus be a catalyst to make the reader an enlightened, knowledgeable, and truth-seeking missile of a human being. People are homo sapiens, even [...]

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