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A new book traces common philosophical threads in the writings of Pierre Manent and Roger Scruton.

Recovering Politics, Civilization, and the Soul: Essays on Pierre Manent and Roger Scruton, by Daniel J. Mahoney (St. Augustine’s Press, 168 pp., $20) Wokeism, which has taken off in the United States but has its deepest intellectual roots in Europe, is only the latest variant of thought dating back to the 1960s that has subjected […]

I also picked Frank & Walters, Therapy? and The Stunning for my playlist because they played Feile 19: the very last gig I went to before the pandemic arrived into our lives. We pretended we were in our early twenties again, and relived our youth. While we’ve been locked down, and while I’ve been having my treatment for cancer here in the States, music has done what it has always done for me in times of need: it’s kept me calm and sane, and helped me to pull myself up when I’ve been feeling low.  Watermelon Sugar by Harry Styles was all over the radio in the first few mon...