Cormac McCarthy's The Road succeeds magnificently as a classic morality tale, implemented with a mastery of language seldom visited upon the reading public. It is a book that reveals the truth of man.
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Statist Republicans, thanks in large measure to the failures of the neocon ideology, are facing an anticipated backlash at the polls this November. Neo-Marxist political constructs, formulations, and policy are distortions predicated on relativism, positivism, scientism, and the usual Gnostic deformations and portend the rise of collectivism and suppression of liberty. Help has arrived to assist those of you about to select a college or university for your recalcitrant, tattooed, and pierced progeny. Gerald Russello’s book, The Postmodern Imagination of Russell Kirk, is a brilliantly rendered exegetical disquisition of the life, thought, and oeuvre of America’s foremost conservative thinker. In his new book, Dean Koontz examines the nature of courage in one Timothy Carrier, a gentleman who works his hands in stone and brick, and chooses to sit anonymously in the dark corner of a dimly lit bar. A review of The Good Guy. Clyde Wilson's Defending Dixie covers such diverse topics as the reclamation of Southern history, the War for Southern Independence, the South Carolina battle flag imbroglio, an examination of blacks in Southern history, and an analysis of the beloved Agrarians, including a stirring tribute to America’s leading conservative philosopher, Russell Kirk. No philosopher of the 20th Century, perhaps in history, approaches an understanding of the etiological problem posed by Aristotle, “that man does not exist out of himself but out of the divine ground of all reality.” A review of Anamnesis. Professor Patrick Garry understands that it does not matter if we lose “free speech” as the act of an oppressive regime or by the bullying tactics of the paragons of the politically correct establishment. A review of his new book. In his recent book, Dr. Glenn Worthington characterizes Michael Oakeshott’s work as a re-telling of the myth of original sin, a caution against the folly of pride, and a contribution to the collective dream. Dr. Ellis Sandoz has declared that the Autobiographical Reflections is the best place to begin a study of the mind of the gifted philosopher Eric Voegelin. Burt Prelutsky's popularity is based on the fact that he writes for “everyman;” that shuffling, stoop-shouldered, balding, overweight drone inextricably bound to the postmodern world via its pernicious deviations. A review of his recent book. No book recently published better grasps the theological and philosophical dichotomy inherent in the war between Islam and the West than Serge Trifkovic's Defeating Jihad. White House Confidential is a compilation of nasty rumors, known facts, canards, and wild speculation that have titillated the unwashed for a couple of centuries. Jerome R. Corsi’s Atomic Iran takes readers on a long journey through the layered and nuanced application of terrorist intrigue, the efforts on the part of misanthropic Democrats to cripple American intelligence gathering operations, the wacky Mullah’s oppressive efforts to silence critics, and the efforts on the part of Iranian intelligence to locate and operate [...] In his new book, Paul L. Williams argues that President Bush’s “War on Terror” is in fact a misnomer, that these Islamic terrorists represent the mainstream belief system of the Arabian peninsula, Wahhabism, and that “The Declaration of Jihad Against Jews and Christians,” of February 28, 1998 was signed not only by Al Qaeda’s [...] In his new book, Henry T. Edmondson argues that the root cause of our national educational dilemma is the pernicious influence of the flawed principles and doctrines of John Dewey. A review of John Dewey and the Decline of American Education. The culture of poverty has led Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell to propose a novel, market-based solution to poverty in Ohio, which is detailed in his new book, Rebuilding America. Political philosophy and the Christian religion are separate things, yet in order to address the great questions there must be a higher concinnity. A review of Fr. James Schall's latest book. The essays presented in The Intellectual Legacy of Michael Oakeshott take the reader on a delightful journey of the mind. Just as the painter provides a landscape, a backdrop in his study, Cormac McCarthy paints the land in words both profound and innocently simple. Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully have made a major contribution in examining the characteristics of a people embarked on a course of self-destruction. Dr. Joan Mellen’s latest book, A Farewell to Justice, is a distinctive compilation of facts and findings that reveal the inner workings of a malicious cabal that succeeded in murdering a duly elected President of the United States. In his new book The Gift of Science, Roger Berkowitz illustrates the pernicious and deleterious effects of “science” on the universal application of justice in society. Erika Holzer’s memoir has taken her relationship with Ayn Rand, Ms. Rand’s teaching skills, and the writing of her two novels and wedded them in a delightful concinnity. |
 
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