Each month the Reading Wheel Review will typically feature a podcast-style interview with the author or scholar related to our featured book. This month we are pleased to have Dr. Mark Dooley join us to discuss the work of the late Sir Roger Scruton. Mark is an Irish philosopher who
A professor who was present at the 1978 Harvard University commencement when Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn delivered his famous address, “A World Split Apart,” described the response from the audience as “stunned silence followed by seething anger.” Such a reception was reflective of Solzhenitsyn’s chief frustration with Western audiences. They read his work through
What is conservatism? This question has served as a catchy title of books, articles, conferences, and break-out sessions for many years. Conservative is sometimes a moniker that people use to locate themselves on the political spectrum. It is also, however, a pejorative term used by many on the left to
We live at an important time in the history of the post-war conservative movement. Issues that were for years undiscussable have appeared at the top of the agenda, and demographic and strategic changes have redrawn the map of the world. The internet and the social media have disrupted the political
