Intercollegiate Studies Institute Ord: 88 books
How the West Won
The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
Finally the Truth about the Rise of the West
Modernity developed only in the West—in Europe and North America. Nowhere else did science and democracy arise; nowhere else was slavery outlawed. Only Westerners invented chimneys, musical scores, telescopes, eyeglasses, pianos, electric lights,...
The Line through the Heart
Natural Law as Fact, Theory, and Sign of Contradiction
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
The suicidal proclivity of our time, writes the acclaimed philosopher J. Budziszewski, is to deny the obvious. Our hearts are riddled with desires that oppose their deepest longings, because we demand to have happiness on terms that make happiness impossible. Why? And what can we do about it?
Budziszewski...
by Anthony Esolen
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
“Esolen signals with this book his presence in the top rank of authors of cultural criticism.” —American Spectator
Play dates, soccer practice, day care, political correctness, drudgery without facts, television, video games, constant supervision, endless distractions: these and other...
Ironies of Faith
The Laughter at the Heart of Christian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
In Ironies of Faith, celebrated Dante scholar and translator Anthony Esolen provides a profound meditation upon the use and place of irony in Christian art and in the Christian life. Beginning with an extended analysis of irony as an essentially dramatic device, Esolen explores those manifestations...
Uncommon Dissent
Intellectuals Who Find Darwinism Unconvincing
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Recent years have seen the rise to prominence of ever more sophisticated philosophical and scientific critiques of the ideas marketed under the name of Darwinism. In Uncommon Dissent, mathematician and philosopher William A. Dembski brings together essays by leading intellectuals who find one or...
Climbing Parnassus
A New Apologia for Greek and Latin
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Climbing Parnassus presents the reader not so much with a program for educational renewal as with a defense and vindication of the formative power of Greek and Latin. Tracy Lee Simmons’s persuasive witness to the unique, now all-but-forgotten advantages of study in, and of, the classical languages constitutes a bracing reminder of the genuine aims of a truly liberal education.
Bonfire of the Humanities
Rescuing the Classics in an Impoverished Age
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
With humor, lucidity, and unflinching rigor, the acclaimed authors of Who Killed Homer? and Plagues of the Mind unsparingly document the degeneration of a central, if beleaguered, discipline—classics—and reveal the root causes of its decline. Hanson, Heath, and Thornton point to academics...
by J. Budziszewski
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
What is the meaning of sex?
Our society is obsessed with sex—and yet we don’t understand it at all. Acclaimed philosopher J. Budziszewski remedies the problem in this wise, gracefully written book about the nature, meaning, and mysteries of sexuality.
*On the Meaning of Sex *corrects...
Toward a Truly Free Market
A Distributist Perspective on the Role of Government, Taxes, Health Care, Deficits, and More
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
For three decades free-market leaders have tried to reverse longstanding Keynesian economic policies, but have only produced larger government, greater debt, and more centralized economic power. So how can we achieve a truly free-market system, especially at this historical moment when capitalism...
The Future of Conservatism
Conflict and Consensus in the Post-Reagan Era
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Once on the wings of the American political stage, conservatism now plays a leading role in public life, thanks largely to the dynamic legacy of Ronald Reagan. But despite conservatism’s emergence as a powerful political force in the last several decades, misunderstandings abound about its meaning...
by Russell Kirk
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
What holds America together? In this classic work, Russell Kirk describes the beliefs and institutions that have nurtured the American soul and commonwealth. Beginning with the Hebrew prophets, Kirk examines in dramatic fashion the sources of American order. His analytical narrative might be called...
by Mark Mitchell, Nathan Schlueter
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
A striking contribution to the conversation that is conservatism
Wendell Berry—poet, novelist, essayist, critic, farmer—has won the admiration of Americans from all walks of life and from across the political spectrum. His writings treat an extraordinary range of subjects, including politics,...
Living on Fire
The Life of L. Brent Bozell Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
“A triumph . . . A moving, beautifully written biography.” —National Review
From the beginning, L. Brent Bozell seemed destined for great things.
An extraordinary orator, the young man with fiery red hair won a national debate competition in high school and later was elected president...
Herbert Butterfield
History, Providence, and Skeptical Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
“The most original historian of his generation”
That is how the celebrated British academic Noel Annan described Herbert Butterfield (1900–1979), a profound and prolific writer who made important contributions as both a public and academic historian.
In this authoritative and accessible...