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For all my quibbles with John Lennon’s shifting politics and social views, that line resonates. If Russell Kirk had worn granny glasses, played electric guitar, and had been more influenced by Lewis Carroll and Elvis Presley than Edmund Burke and Irving Babbitt, he might have come up with the Lennon lyrics first.

A new novel boasts a keen style and considerable historical knowledge in the service of vilifying the West and its highest ideals, even justifying the most grotesque revolutionary violence. In short, it speaks to the moment.

In Catholics I Like To Write About  I described the types of Catholics I feel drawn to comment on.  This post displays some of the particular  groups or 

The author of Evangelical Is Not Enough and Christ the Tiger had much to say on the subject of high culture and the “permanent things.” A new collection of his essays keeps his ideas alive at a time when everything seems terribly disposable.

The following article is adapted from a speech the author delivered at the Heritage Foundation on March 14, 2018. Few would dispute that we are in the middle of a grave cultural crisis. A despairing conservative critic wrote: “We are on the road to cultural disaster.”

The Heritage Foundation has become one of the Permanent Things onthe public policy landscape, and America is better for it.

The word "justice" is on everyone's lips now a days, and may signify almost anything.

“At present, science has no satisfactory answer to the question of the origin of life on the earth. Perhaps the appearance of life on the earth is a miracle. Scientists are reluctant to accept that view, but their choices are limited: either life was created on the earth by the will of a being outside the grasp of scientific understanding, or it evolved on our planet spontaneously, through chemical reactions occurring in nonliving matter lying on the surface of the planet.

Recovering Rhetoric: How Ideas, Language and Leadership can Triumph in Most-Modern Politics

By the grace of God and his own talents, Russell Kirk achieved all three goals and provided a raison d’etre for those who reject the modern existential argument that life is without meaning and who joyfully honor the permanent things.