One Eternal Day

This post from some time ago has recently reappeared in the "popular posts" section of this blog. I appreciate the reminder, espec...

"Utopian Promises, Despotic Outcomes" is a review of The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea from Thucydides to Lenin by Da...

Michael Dirda is just about the only reason I subscribed to The Washington Post and now he has retired. I do, however, have access to an ar...

From one of Russell Kirk's newspaper columns, collected in Confessions of a Bohemian Tory (1963): "Prejudice" means pre-judgm...

Joseph Epstein is a favorite essayist I always read whenever and wherever I find him. From "Virtucrats on Parade" : To win an argu...

From a long, very interesting, essay by Katherine Rundell, herself an author of books for children, "Why children’s books?" : .......

From a fine essay by Yuval Levin, "Taking the Long Way," about what contemporary conservatives and liberals forget about the nece...

A favorite Burke quotation from his  Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790). .... Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern...

John Buchan on Arthur Balfour (1848-1930), "the greatest public figure of that time": His character will be a puzzle to future h...

About a book I first read in the '60s: By reason of longevity alone, The Conservative Mind , as of 2023 a septuagenarian, is a classic....

This looks promising: Fusion: In the Tradition of Liberty . From an essay by Ryan T. Anderson at that site: If we don’t want people souring...

Burke on the proper place of politics : During his first few years in England, Edmund Burke compiled essay sketches and fragments in a noteb...

When I used this quotation from Burke in a class I had to explain that "prejudice" as used here needed to be understood as traditi...

Douglas Murray has been reading the report of Britain's "Research Information and Communications Unit" (RICU), part of a gove...

Re-posted: Edmund Burke in his Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol : …. The extreme of liberty (which is its abstract perfection, but it...

Michael Brendan Dougherty : .... In this unsettled age, conservatism is the work of recovering and restoring a home in this world—a plac...

Received Edmund Burke and the Perennial Battle, 1789-1797 this afternoon, an edited collection of Burke's writings. The following is fr...

The current print edition of National Review includes an article by Daniel B. Klein and Dominic Pino, editors of a recent book about Edmun...

Nathan Schlueter asks "Is Compromise Evil?" Using positions on abolitionism before the Civil War, he argues we should avoid some ...

I've posted this Edmund Burke quotation before. It's a good reminder, not only about politics, but for anyone, including pasto...