Language Conservation and the Conservation of Culture

By |2014-01-04T20:58:41-06:00June 13th, 2013|Categories: Bradley J. Birzer, Conservation, Language, Russell Kirk|

In one of the finest books dealing with T.S. Eliot, The Art of Eliot (1949), Helen Gardner attempted to explain the poet’s employment of the language of his day. “Our age, with its undigested technical vocabulary, its misuse of metaphor, and its servitude to cliche, cannot be regarded as propitious for a poet. It is part of [...]

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Forgotten Conservatives in American History

By |2025-03-06T18:44:20-06:00June 13th, 2013|Categories: Books, Conservatism, History, Stephen M. Klugewicz, Thomas Jefferson|Tags: |

Historians tend to dismiss conservatism as irrelevant to the American experience. Conservatism—dispositional as opposed to programmatic in nature—is often hard to see, especially for historians who tend to use the lens of “progress” in looking at history. Forgotten Conservatives in American History, by Brion McClanahan and Clyde Wilson (200 pages, Pelican, 2012) Is there a [...]

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