May 23, 2012 ~ The Imaginative Conservative

A Liberal Wolf in Communal Clothing: Community & Communitarianism

By Bradley C. S. Watson|2014-03-31T17:04:53-05:00May 23rd, 2012|Categories: Books, Bruce Frohnen, George W. Carey, Jean-Jacques Rousseau|Tags: 1MA|

The New Communitarians and the Crisis of Modern Liberalism, by Bruce Frohnen, Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 1996. Community and Tradition: Conservative Perspectives on the American Experience, edited by George W. Carey and Bruce Frohnen, Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998. Communitarianism at one level is a contemporary school of thought that takes to [...]

R.A. Lafferty: The Sack of Rome

By John Barnes|2016-11-26T09:52:14-06:00May 23rd, 2012|Categories: John Barnes, Quotation, Rome|

Brad Birzer’s article A New Dark Age mentioned the 410 sack of Rome by the Visigoths, the event that prompted St. Augustine to pen City of God. Brad’s article brought to mind the closing passage from one of my favorite works of history: by R.A. Lafferty “There is a term placed on everything, even the world. [...]