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Since Austin Bramwell has now joined the meme of political naming the books that have most influenced their view of the world, after poking fun at the whole thing a little earlier, I suppose it’s safe for me to indulge as well. The list below is not the same as a list of the books [...]
Filed under: Books
Recent discussion of Red Toryism prompted me to buy a few books by George Grant, the Canadian philosopher with whose thought the term has long been associated. The epigraphs to the chapter on “The United States as a Technological Society” in the The George Grant Reader struck me as worth noting: As a Canadian I [...]
Today I picked up — well, received in the mail — a copy of M. Morton Auerbach’s The Conservative Illusion. It’s not a well remembered book, but it is an important one: Auerbach was one of the few people to take the 1950s “New Conservatives” seriously enough to write a volume to refute them. Richard [...]
Filed under: Books, Conservatism
Dr. Panichas, editor of Modern Age for a quarter century, died March 17. Though he shied away from the limelight, he was one of the leading traditionalist conservative literary scholars and philosophers of the past 50 years, a fact attested not only by his guidance of Modern Age, which steered away from the shoals of [...]
Filed under: Books, Conservatism, the dead
Cornell applied mathematics professor Steven Strogatz takes readers on a pleasant trip to the square root of -1. Elementary stuff, but enjoyable nonetheless. Numbers may be carefully fixed concepts, but their relationship to one another is metaphorical, even when one doesn’t realize that a metaphor is governing thought. The real numbers are part of a [...]
Filed under: Philosophy
Last weekend I got around to reading The Intellectual Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy by Douglass Adair. The book began as his doctoral dissertation in 1943 and went unpublished until 2000, 32 years after Adair took his own life. Not many Ph.D. papers are of wide interest so long after they were written, but Adair’s was [...]
Filed under: Books, Conservatism, Liberty, Philosophy
My article in the current Young American Revolution mag is now online here; it’s a look at Frank Chodorov, his 50-year project, and the young Right. You can get a subscription to YAR by donating $50 or more to Young Americans for Liberty — a very good cause.
Filed under: Conservatism, Liberty, magazines