Dante’s Transformed Love: Musings on the Poet’s Love for Beatrice
It is well-known that Dante is one of the greatest poets in Western civilization. His magnum opus, The Divine Comedy, is considered one of the crowning achievements…
Ideas Still Have Consequences: Richard Weaver on Nominalism and Relativism
By the time of his untimely death in 1963 at the age of 53 years old, Richard Weaver was considered a leading intellectual historian, philosopher, and mid-twentieth-century…
Revisiting Robert Nisbet’s Conservative Classic
When American sociologist Robert Nisbet wrote The Quest for Community in 1953, it was a success. The book quickly made Nisbet an icon of the conservative movement,…
Who Reads Robert Nisbet Anymore?
Of the many books that Robert Nisbet wrote during his lifetime, perhaps none is more important than his first, The Quest for Community: A Study in the…
Overcoming Lust With Dante’s “Divine Comedy”
“Midway along the journey of our life / I woke to find myself in a dark wood, / for I had wandered off from the straight path.”[1]…
Flannery O’Connor and Russell Kirk on the Spiritual Foundation of Political Reform
Introduction Mary Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964) is best known as a Roman Catholic novelist, short story writer, and essayist. She is also known as a Southern writer who…
Following the Gaze: Beatrice’s Eyes and Beauty in The Divine Comedy
Introduction In the Convivio, Dante writes about his admiration for a Florentine girl named Beatrice. Here Dante reveals that he first looked at Beatrice when he was…