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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.”