Logocentric literature professor | Classical-Christian educator | Father & husband | Foe of faddish fanaticisms | Laudator temporis acti
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It is a great historical injustice that you can't burn down the buildings of revolutionaries who've never built any.
Archie Goodwin retweeted
"Conservatism starts from a sentiment that all mature people can readily share: the sentiment that good things are easily destroyed, but not easily created. This is especially true of the good things that come to us as collective assets: peace, freedom, law, civility, public spirit, the security of property, and family life, in all of which we depend on the cooperation of others while having no means singlehandedly to obtain it. In respect of such things, the work of destruction is quick, easy, and exhilarating; the work of creation slow, laborious, and dull." How to Be a Conservative
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OLIVER SPIVEY ON HAROLD BLOOM'S LETTERS
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Archie Goodwin retweeted
Wrote a tribute to Morris Dickstein. A model of critical and professional excellence. @MorrisDickstein @Amerbookreview
“Literature has two advantages over wine. A good book ages forever; and you can read it as often as you wish without diminishing its substance. The devoted reader is like a wine lover whose dream has come true. His stock will never spoil or be consumed. He can sample, enjoy,
Archie Goodwin retweeted
Yes: G. K. Chesterton, Jacques Barzun, Joseph Epstein, Neil Postman, Harold Bloom, Roger Scruton, William Barrett, Joan Didion, Terry Eagleton, Robert Hughes, Werner Jaeger, Leon Kass, Russell Kirk, Peter Kreeft, Philip Rieff, George Steiner, Louis L'Amour, Tracy Lee Simmons, Mark Van Doren.
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These letters further confirm that [Harold] Bloom, a guardian of our Western literary heritage, was one of the most important minds of the past half century. We shall not look upon his like again. - Oliver Spivey on THE MAN WHO READ EVERYTHING @yalepress
Letters of a Literary Legend
Oliver Spivey on "The Man Who Read Everything: The Literary Letters of Harold Bloom" Edited by Heather Cass White. @yalepress
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Letters of a Literary Legend
Oliver Spivey on "The Man Who Read Everything: The Literary Letters of Harold Bloom" Edited by Heather Cass White. @yalepress
Archie Goodwin retweeted
Writing on Paul Elmer More's New Humanism, Michael Lucchese notes that "Russell Kirk honored them [Irving Babbitt and Paul Elmer More] as the two American writers who did the most to sustain tradition in their time: buff.ly/jpwSA39 @ActonInstitute
Archie Goodwin retweeted
Happy 85th Birthday, Paul Simon!
I think this is the best of his post-S&G songs.
At about the same time as this clip, my bride was singing a gorgeous solo for this song with Yale's first women's a capella group, @NewBlueofYale .
youtu.be/AE3kKUEY5WU?si=KnJO… via @YouTube
Archie Goodwin retweeted
Whatever you feel about their respective politics, the decline in quality from William F. Buckley to, say, Tucker Carlson—just as interviewers!—is bottomlessly depressing.
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The Bookman could use your support this "Kirktober." We are a conservative book review that was founded by Russell Kirk in 1960. Last year, we reached over 90,000 readers. We don't have ads, paywalls, or subscriptions, so we rely on donors for support: zeffy.com/en-US/donation-for…
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Oliver Spivey on the letters of Harold Bloom:
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“As in Bloom’s criticism, we find those familiar ex cathedra assertions on a work’s aesthetic power and chances for literary survival. Yet there are also intimate notes of self-doubt, modesty, melancholy, and love.”
Archie Goodwin retweeted
We believe that the West can awaken from its long slumber – and rekindle the fire that was first lit in ancient Greece millennia ago.
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.@SecRubio: "It has become fashionable today to believe that enlightened foreign policy means prioritizing the global community over one's own people. Here too, we have much to learn from the men of ancient Greece — because they knew that there was nothing selfish or wrong about loyalty to your nation, nor anything selfish or wrong about fighting to defend its interests above all else."