Books

Mini-Review The Conservative Mind by Russell Kirk (1953) Choice quote: "Hawthorne's chief accomplishment: impressing the idea of sin upon a nation which would like to forget it." My book still has that smell that all the books from that little bookstore in Niles, Michigan, had. I

Background: When I was the editor of Gilbert Magazine [http://www.chesterton.org/explore-the-acs/gilbertmagazine/], I was responsible for the "Tremendous Trifles" column. It was occasionally hard to find a sufficient amount of interesting GKC material to fill the page, so John Peterson sent me a file full

Background: When I was the editor of Gilbert Magazine [http://www.chesterton.org/explore-the-acs/gilbertmagazine/], I was responsible for the "Tremendous Trifles" column. It was occasionally hard to find a sufficient amount of interesting GKC material to fill the page, so John Peterson sent me a file full

Mini-Review Plato and Aristotle by Eric Voegelin (1957). Volume III of Order and History. Choice quote: "Thanatos orients the soul toward the Good by relieving it from the sickness of appearance; Eros is the positive desire for the Good." Plato the mystic. Aristotle the scientist. Right? No. They

Mini-Review The World of the Polis by Eric Voegelin (1957). Volume II of Order and History. Choice quote: Homer "strove valiantly for the insight that ordering action is action in conformance with the transcendent, divine order, while disruptive action is a fall from the divine order into the specifically

Mini-Review Israel and Revelation by Eric Voegelin (1956). Volume I of Order and History. Choice quote: "A Prophet can hear and communicate the word of God, but he is neither a Philosopher or a Saint." Josef Pieper writes thick and thin books: books that are short but packed.

Mini-Review Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (1953). Choice quote: “'But I know something else you don't. There's dew on the grass in the morning.' He suddenly couldn't remember if he had known this or not, and it made him quite irritable.” Everyone