Archive for Gleaves Whitney
Staring into Chaos: Explorations in the Decline of Western Civilization
The right is temperamentally pessimistic. The left is philosophically nihilistic. Both camps have long tended to see the West as culturally decadent, a civilization in decline. So it is odd that, for decades, virtually every major English-language reference work in the social sciences included articles about progress, but not its opposite. It was as though [...]
1Oct1999 | Gleaves Whitney | 0 comments | ContinuedRussell Kirk’s Conception of Decadence
Mr. Whitney is senior speech writer for Michigan Governor John Engler and the senior fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal. When the late Dr. Russell Kirk sought a publisher for The Conservative Mind, he approached a young Chicago firm run by Henry Regnery. Regnery seized on the significance of the manuscript and [...]
1Jun1997 | Gleaves Whitney | 0 comments | Continued-
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