James E. Person, Jr., has edited and written for many literary, historical, and biographical reference works, including Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Contemporary Authors, Short Story Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, What Do I Read Next? and many other titles. Mr. Person is also a freelance writer who has published more than 200 essays and book reviews in the Virginia Quarterly Review, Modern Age, National Review, the Washington Times, and other publications. He is the author of Russell Kirk: A Critical Biography of a Conservative Mind and Earl Hamner: From Walton’s Mountain to Tomorrow.
C.S. Lewis is recognized as a Christian lay apologist, a writer of children’s books, an adept novelist and fantasist, and a literary scholar and logician, still eliciting strong reactions, favorable or unfavorable, from his readers... Today’s offering in our Timeless Essay series affords our readers the...
According to Russell Kirk, the moral imagination is the power of knowing man, despite his weaknesses and sinful nature, as a moral being, meant for eternity. It recognizes that human beings, after all, are created in the image of God... Russell...
The Conservative Constitution by Russell Kirk
A nation's constitution can be created overnight, claimed Clinton Rossiter incautiously at a symposium over thirty years ago. Witness, he continued, the guiding instruments composed by several...
Thomas Jefferson: A Strange Case of Mistaken Identity by Alf J. Mapp, Jr.
Reviewing selected letters of Edmund Burke in the American Spectator in 1985, Professor Charles R. Kesler claimed that...
Russell Kirk
During the mid-1950s, Russell Kirk was a very busy man: writing, debating, travelling, advising, working hard to found a new conservative quarterly, and in general becoming a force to be reckoned with in...
On Friday, November 22, 1963, at about the same time as President John F. Kennedy prepared to enter the black limousine that would take him through downtown Dallas to his violent death, another life was coming to...
J. R. R. Tolkien ’s Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle-Earth by Bradley J. Birzer
Much has been written of J.R.R. Tolkien’s accomplishment during the past half century, with critics...
Virtue and the Promise of Conservatism: The Legacy of Burke & Tocqueville, by Bruce Frohnen
In his role as a professor of English literature, Thomas Howard sometimes gives his class a list of the...
In one of his syndicated columns published during the 1970s, the founder of The University Bookman famously wrote, “There is nothing more conservative than conservation.” Russell Kirk, considered one of the founders of post-war conservatism—that supposedly heartless, devil-catch-the-hindmost view...
Street Saints: Renewing America’s Cities by Barbara J. Elliott
Some of the world’s greatest people are largely unknown, for they accomplish positive, life-changing deeds in quiet,...
