How Can We Transmit the Permanent Things?

By |2016-07-06T15:41:29-05:00October 16th, 2013|Categories: Permanent Things, Russell Kirk|Tags: |

Education and the Permanent Things If we are going to transmit the permanent things, we will have to put back into education the moral and metaphysical vision that is foundational to Western education and Western civilization. I hope to illustrate this thesis by discussing Russell Kirk’s vision of conservatism and the permanent things, by describing [...]

To Educate in the Permanent Things

By |2014-01-16T15:51:33-06:00July 11th, 2013|Categories: Culture, Liberal Learning, Permanent Things|

In his State of the Union address President Obama proposed changes to preschool, high school, and college education, respectively. His proposals generated praise and condemnation from the predictable cheerleaders and naysayers. Some celebrated his efforts to expand early childhood education; others suggested that he should have focused more on the student loan crisis; still others, [...]

In Aeternum: The England that Never Changes

By |2019-09-28T09:25:14-05:00June 11th, 2013|Categories: History, Joseph Pearce, Permanent Things|

Recent posts on the St. Austin Review about the United States and England, and especially those concerned with the decline, decay and ultimate disintegration of England have prompted my musings on the mutability of nations and cultures. Is everything subject to change? If so, is there any permanent value attached to these mutable things? Why bother about [...]

Meddling with What We Do Not Understand

By |2019-06-04T16:02:16-05:00May 24th, 2013|Categories: Conservatism, Edmund Burke, Permanent Things, Quotation|

What has been said of the Roman empire, is at least as true of the British constitution—“Octingentorum annorum fortuna, disciplinaque, compages haec coaluit; quae convelli sine convellentium exitio non potest. ”1 This British constitution has not been struck out at an heat by a set of presumptuous men, like the assembly of pettifoggers run mad [...]

The Permanent Things

By |2018-10-16T20:24:53-05:00February 9th, 2013|Categories: Permanent Things, Quotation, RAK, Russell Kirk, T.S. Eliot|

T.S. Eliot By “the Permanent Things” [T. S. Eliot] meant those elements in the human condition that give us our nature, without which we are as the beasts that perish. They work upon us all in the sense that both they and we are bound up in that continuity of belief and institution called the [...]

The Legacy of C. S. Lewis

By |2016-02-12T15:28:33-06:00December 26th, 2012|Categories: C.S. Lewis, Christianity, Literature, Permanent Things|Tags: , |

On Friday, November 22, 1963, at about the same time as President John F. Kennedy prepared to enter the black limousine that would take him through downtown Dallas to his violent death, another life was coming to a far less dramatic close across the Atlantic in England. It was late afternoon in the village of [...]

Russell Kirk: Champion of the Permanent Things

By |2014-01-21T14:25:57-06:00March 8th, 2012|Categories: Conservatism, Permanent Things, Russell Kirk|Tags: |

It seems everybody is looking for better answers to today’s problems; we want a revelation. But the problem is; we are reluctant to accept the superior answers and revelations which have already been ratified by the entire human experience. Although there are no shortcuts to wisdom, in this Information Age, the House of Wisdom is [...]

The Power of Beauty

By |2021-07-08T15:04:28-05:00August 6th, 2010|Categories: Art, Barbara J. Elliott, Beauty, Culture, Permanent Things, T.S. Eliot|

Art has the twin functions of reflecting a culture and shaping it. The problem that contemporary artists face is a difficult one: how to express meaning to a world that has become culturally over-stimulated by the spectacular, the hyper-sexualized, and the dumbed-down by inanity, and which has increasingly become antagonistic to manifestations of Christianity. T.S. [...]

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