Intercollegiate Studies Institute: 104 books
by R.J. Stove
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
“Delightfully sophisticated . . . the only music history that can be savored, muscatel in hand, in the green shade of a beach umbrella” (John Simon, The Hudson Review).
R. J. Stove’s A Student’s Guide to Music History is a concise account, written for the intelligent lay reader,...
by Lawrence W Reed
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Character is indispensable to a successful career and a happy life. It’s also essential to our liberty, because if a society can’t govern itself, then government must step in to police our decisions and actions.
Sounds pretty heavy, right? Well, the good news is that character is nothing more...
American Cicero
The Life of Charles Carroll
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Aristocrat. Catholic. Patriot. Founder.
Before his death in 1832, Charles Carroll of Carrollton—the last living signer of the Declaration of Independence—was widely regarded as one of the most important Founders. Today, Carroll’s signal contributions to the American Founding are overlooked,...
by Gary L Gregg II, Mark David Hall
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Even as Americans devour books about our Founding Fathers, the focus seldom extends past a half dozen or so icons—Franklin, Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton. Many of the men (and women) who made prodigious contributions to the American founding have been all but forgotten.
America’s...
If Not Us, Who?
William Rusher, National Review, and the Conservative Movement
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
If Not Us, Who? is both the story of an architect of the modern conservative movement and a colorful journey through a half century of high-level politics.
Best known as the longtime publisher of National Review, William Rusher (1923–2011) was more than just a crucial figure in the history...
Forgotten Founder, Drunken Prophet
The Life of Martin Luther
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
The Anti-Federalist Luther Martin of Maryland is known to us—if he is known at all—as the wild man of the Constitutional Convention: a verbose, frequently drunken radical who annoyed the hell out of James Madison, George Washington, Gouverneur Morris, and the other giants responsible for the creation...
The Cost of Liberty
The Life of John Dickinson
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
**“Makes a powerful and convincing case for restoring John Dickinson to his rightful place in the first rank of the Founders.” —*The Washington Times ***
The Cost of Liberty offers a sorely needed reassessment of a great patriot and misunderstood Founder.
It has been more than...
by Henry Edmondson III
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
The influence of John Dewey’s undeniably pervasive ideas on the course of American education during the last half-century has been celebrated in some quarters and decried in others. But Dewey’s writings themselves have not often been analyzed in a sustained way. In John Dewey and the Decline...
Blue Collar Intellectuals
When the Enlightened and the Everyman Elevated America
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Stupid is the new smart—but it wasn’t always so
Popular culture has divorced itself from the life of the mind. Who has time for great books or deep thought when there is Jersey Shore to watch, a txt 2 respond 2, and World of Warcraft to play?
At the same time, those who pursue...
The Nature of Nature
Examining the Role of Naturalism in Science
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
The intellectual and cultural battles now raging over theism and atheism, conservatism and secular progressivism, dualism and monism, realism and antirealism, and transcendent reality versus material reality extend even into the scientific disciplines. This stunning new volume captures this titanic...
Dupes
How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
“Nothing short of horrifying . . . In terms of putting the last 100 years in perspective, Dupes may be one of the most significant literary offerings of our time.” —Washington Times
In this startling, intensively researched book, bestselling historian Paul Kengor shines light on a deeply...
Eliot and His Age
T. S. Eliot's Moral Imagination in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Eliot and His Age remains the best introduction to T. S. Eliot’s life, ideas, and literary works. It is the essential starting place for anyone who would understand what Eliot was about. Russell Kirk’s view of his older friend is sympathetic but not adulatory. His insights into Eliot’s writings...
by Christopher Dawson
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
In scope and in vision Christopher Dawson’s historiography ranks with the work of men like Spengler, Northrop, and Toynbee. Several major themes run through Dawson’s work, but perhaps his most unique contribution was his insistence on the importance of religion in shaping and sustaining civilizations.
Religion,...
The Life of the Mind
On the Joys and Travails of Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
In The Life of the Mind, Georgetown University’s James V. Schall takes up the task of reminding us that, as human beings, we naturally take a special delight and pleasure in simply knowing. Because we have not only bodies but also minds, we are built to know what is. In this volume, Schall, author...