I said yesterday that I hadn't received ISI Books' most-recent catalogue. I was wrong. It came yesterday (maybe Monday, since I didn't check Monday's mail until last night). The Tory Anarchist is right: it's a good one. Merely reading the catalogue is an education. Especially appealing:
Look Homeward, America, by Bill Kauffman
The Life of the Mind, by James V. Schall
Michael Polanyi: The Art of Knowing, by Mark T. Mitchell
The Polanyi book is the sixth book in ISI's Library of Modern Thinkers Series. I've read the first five (de Jouvenel, Nisbet, Roepke, Von Mises, and Voegelin), and they were all excellent. I look forward to reading about Polanyi. He's a fascinating thinker, but not terribly accessible to the un-initiated (of which I am one). I tried Personal Knowledge, but it was like chewing through a wall of roast beef: good, but hard. I tried a biography, which helped, but only a little. Hopefully, this new book will help a lot.
