Russell Kirk once asked, “Can virtue be taught?” David Hein's new book, Teaching the Virtues, is an unsurpassed reflection on that ancient question, one capable of renewing education in our time. Register for our 7/23 Book Gallery w/Hein and Luke C. Sheahan, PhD: buff.ly/H7RDXud

Repentance is always an option

Virtues CAN be taught. So thinks David Hein. Join Luke C. Sheahan, PhD on July 23 at 7pm to discuss David Hein's new book TEACHING THE VIRTUES. Register here: buff.ly/H7RDXud. Cosponsored by Russell Kirk Center and Thales College

Mixing experience with “balancing”—the idea that judges must weigh the pros and cons of a legal problem by attributing to ideas or interests a value—Dershowitz puts forth a jurisprudence of prevention. He embraces Holmes’s idea that “prevention” and not retribution—the idea of

Marxism and totalitarianism remain disturbingly present in Cuba, Venezuela, and especially Nicaragua, where the Church faces severe persecution. Ruling as co-presidents, Daniel Ortega and his wife Rosario Murillo have transformed Nicaragua into an authoritarian state—crushing

Maçães’s “world builders” are more than political founders who establish a regime by laying down laws and ordering offices and institutions that establish a way of life—or regimen—for a people. -- Trevor Shelley on Bruno Maçães's WORLD BUILDERS Cambridge University Press

Zubia observes that even Hume’s irreligious project cannot escape faith in something, for the Scotsman still professes faith in the intelligibility of the world—and in the reason of man. “If public political discourse under the doctrine of political liberalism already depends on

at a time when so much of our culture regards any limits as abhorrent, and keeps telling us that we can “have it all,” it is also a very timely work. -- Gene Callahan on David McPherson's The Virtues of Limits

Universities’ penchant for elevating incompetence depresses me. How did it manage to bury itself in that much debt? How was this foolishness not foreseen?

Congrats to The University Bookman contributors Dr Daniel Pitt and Michael Lucchese for publications in @lawliberty and National Affairs!

Andrew Snyder The guy saves the protagonist from a tree and then three days later from a tomb. If you can’t track that imagery, I don’t know what to tell you. C. R. Wiley

Oh it was.

JUSTICE CLARENCE THOMAS is now 7th longest serving Supreme Court Justice in U. S. history- 33 years, 330 days. He’s our nation’s greatest Justice & an American hero. Watch Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words & listen to or read his memoirs, My Grandfather’s Son.

Well, Elon Musk and I have disagreements, but not about this! Andrew Snyder C. R. Wiley

They don’t know what they’re missing. We got to the part where the witch queen gets through the cabinet into our world in ND Wilson’s 100 Cupboards last night. You should have seen how big my eight year old’s eyes got! Then there’s the random questions like: Dad, when the Valor

A lot of people are mad about this post. But this guy is just talking about how insanely awesome America is, you can just walk around with an AR-15! USA! USA! USA!

The road forward is steep, but the resources for civilizational renewal are still available to all those who seek them.

No one is innocent. “There is not a single country,” Kirsch writes, “whose history does not provoke horror, if seen through the eyes of the victims rather than the victors.”