David Pryce-Jones's Signatures reminds us of a more dire and serious age but also of one in some ways more genuinely human than our own.
James Matthew Wilson
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Apr 27, 2020
Liberal education exists to help us become more truly ourselves, but it begins with the assumption that we do not yet know who we are.
Oct 30, 2019
Nature hates a vacuum, and if modern civic life does not fill itself with a range of sound mystiques, others, more dark, will make an entrance.
Dec 6, 2018
Perhaps the memory of that metaphysical right to property informs our fears, and could lead to a restoration of human flourishing.
Oct 16, 2018
A rich, entertaining, and often instructive selection of Russell Kirk’s correspondence.
Feb 27, 2018
Can lyric poetry save us from our Hobbesian selves?
James Matthew Wilson, who teaches in the Department of Humanities and Augustinian Traditions at Villanova University, is poetry editor of Modern Age.