The Conservative Mind
by Russell Kirk
First published in 1954 and now available in a new edition, Russell Kirk’s history and assessment of conservative thought has been enthusiastically received by even… | read more »
First published in 1954 and now available in a new edition, Russell Kirk’s history and assessment of conservative thought has been enthusiastically received by even… | read more »
Written by the highest ranking Soviet ever to defect to the United States, Red Horizons is the world renowned expose of the unchecked power of… | read more »
Two months out of college Buckley wrote this book, giving his reaction to how one student, a Christian conservative, experienced and reacted to a postwar… | read more »
In this book Chambers recounts his difficult childhood, his early work with the Communist Party, his later renunciation of communism, the Hiss/Chambers case, and the… | read more »
It is 1891 and London is still reeling from the horror of the unsolved Jack the Ripper murders when Inspector Sholto Lestrade is sent to… | read more »
Fumento exposes one of the disease’s most damaging rumors: that AIDS is no longer anchored to the high risk groups of homosexual men and intravenous… | read more »
This French journalist looked to the “great social laboratory” of America for a preview of European destiny, highlighting those elements of American society, culture, and… | read more »
This collection of letters, some never before published, offers a rich portrait of the man Arthur Koestler said, ‘knowingly committed moral suicide to atone for… | read more »
Jaffa contends that the Framers believed the Constitution was anchored in the principles of natural law invoked by the Declaration of Independence and that today’s… | read more »
Pat Buchanan’s winning autobiography tells of his growing up in a strong Catholic family, brawling his way through Georgetown University and Columbia School of Journalism,… | read more »
Leo Damore exposes the perjury, obstruction of justice, and destruction of evidence that followed Ted Kennedy’s accident at Chappaquiddick and Mary Jo Kopechne’s death…. | read more »
Ericson’s careful reading of Solzhenitsyn’s essays show him to be a Russian patriot who freely draws upon traditional Western values; a democrat with moderate, centrist… | read more »
Jude Wanniski’s masterpiece that defined the economic policies of the 1980s responsible for the booming stock market, the creation of thirty million new jobs, and… | read more »
In this powerful book Mencken battles against conventional thinking; from Emerson to Shaw, Twain to Joyce, and teetotalers to psychoanalysts…. | read more »
A veteran aide and press secretary to three congressmen on Capitol Hill, John Jackley takes you behind Congress’s closed doors and into the corrupt back… | read more »
Sykes uses Dartmouth College as a case study to show how American higher education is turning out hollow men and women–apathetic, ignorant, and empty of… | read more »
The only full-time American journalist to cover the Soviet-Afghan war uncovers a web of intrigue of more than half a dozen of the world’s intelligence… | read more »
The Language of Liberty provides an indispensable guide to the lay reader, the Lincoln aficionado, and the scholar. All now have access to a single… | read more »
Kuehnelt-Leddihn dissects the nature of the Leftist mind and provides definitive descriptions of Left and Right, illustrating why the Left includes not only Marxism, but… | read more »
The year is 1895 and a dead body is found on the last train to Liverpool Street in the London Underground Railway. Another corpse is… | read more »
In this, the final installment of the Lestrade Mystery Series, Lestrade is arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman dies in his arms on… | read more »
Murder is afoot among the footmen of the Royal Household: a servant girl, Amy Macpherson, has been brutally slaughtered. Wit as sharp as a dagger… | read more »
Britain has entered the 20th Century and inspector Lestrade investigates a series of bizarre and perplexing murders, which leads Lestrade around the country in pursuit… | read more »
When Inspector Sholto Lestrade flies to Egypt to solve the riddle of dead men he ends up a midst battles against revolting Egyptians, and the… | read more »
An English war hero is found dead in a dingy London Hotel. Inspector Sholto Lestrade is up to the task of solving the case. And… | read more »
Several mysterious deaths occurs. The clues: broken mirrors. Will inspector Sholto Lestrade bamboozle another perplexing serial killer?… | read more »
Step right up! This way for the greatest show on earth! Detective-Sergeant Sholto lestrade has his work cut out investigating mysterious goings on at the… | read more »
What do a lecherous rector, a devious speculator, and a plagiarist novelist have in common? Answer: They’re all dead, each of them with a bloody… | read more »
The further exploits of the big-game hunter and intrepid explorer introduced to readers in H. Rider Haggard’s King Solomon’s Mines. Set in Africa, Allan Quatermmain… | read more »
From the ancient cultures of the Middle East have sprung three of the world’s major religions, outstanding accomplishments in literature and science, and seemingly never-ending… | read more »
Here is an essential Unamuno reader, offering a full-length novel, Able Sanchez, and two remarkable short stories, The Madness of Doctor Montarco and San Manuel… | read more »
Ambrose Bierce’s short stories and factual accounts of the Civil War won him lasting fame both for his unflinching portrayals of the realities of war… | read more »
Rich countries also tend to be the free countries, notes Dr. Walter Williams. Yet he sees growing threats to our wealth-building freedoms. “The American values… | read more »
America’s ability to keep the peace and protect freedom is in decline all around the world. This book argues forcefully that America’s retreat is a… | read more »
“Don’t forget me,” she wrote a friend in 1917. History has certainly not forgotten the youngest daughter of Nicholas II, Czar of all of Russia. Neither… | read more »
He who has bread may have many troubles: He who lacks it has only one. Using the sly wisdom of this old Byzantine proverb, Keith… | read more »
Combining the provocative story of President Ronald Reagan’s most colorful Cabinet officer with an eyeopening exploration of the vast resources controlled by the Department of… | read more »
The New York Times is the most enterprising American newspaper in the field of foreign policy. It maintains more foreign correspondents–at enormous expense–and publishes more… | read more »
The text of this work is comprised of two Questions (Number Five and Six) take from the famed West Baden traslation of De Veritate. In… | read more »
Witten by Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (480-524 A.D.) while in prison awaiting execution, On the Consolation of Philosophy is a dialogue between the author and… | read more »
The primary concern of Albert Camus, his philosophy–which has been interpreted and reinterpreted, subjected to confusions and misconceptions, and both claimed and rejected by the existentialists–has… | read more »
For the strategist–whether he’s in business, the military, or any other competitive field of endeavor–here is the essence of the greatest military thinker in the… | read more »
For Nietzsche the Age of the Greek Tragedy was indeed a tragic age. He saw in it the rise and climax of values so dear… | read more »
Das Kapital, Karal Marx’s seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth century. From Kapital sprung the economic and political systems… | read more »
“The subject of ‘Kokoro’ which can be translated as ‘the heart of things’ or as ‘feelings,’ is the delicate matter of the contrast between the… | read more »
In this book, the most comprehensive Burke anthology available, Peter J. Stanlis, distinguished professor of humanities emeritus at Rockford College, has collected all the most… | read more »
The great claim was that Marxism, as put forth in the Communist Manifesto, was scientific. Marx and Marxists spokemuch of the “false consciousness” of people… | read more »
Lenin’s State and Revolution is a broad assault on revisionism. Its impulse lies in Lenin’s boundless political ambition, namely his craving to acquire absolute power… | read more »
Social Contract takes up an argument which had begun with Bodin and Hobbes, and been continued by Grotius, Spinoza, and Locke to form the foundation… | read more »
Interest in Hobbes’s agenda is not to deny Leviathan’s contemporary relevance. To the contrary. To read Hobbes on his own terms is to discover a… | read more »
1980 The rise of Reagan Democrats relished the idea of facing Ronald Reagan as the Republican presidential nominee. They figured he’d be easy to tag… | read more »
Robert Louis Stevenson –best known for his novels Kidnapped, Treasure Island, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde–also was an acknowledged master of the English essay…. | read more »
Trashing the Planet is the one book you need to get a sure, common-sense grasp on the contentious issues where science and politics overlap, and… | read more »
The preeminent adventure novel of the French Foreign Legion. Three noble English brothers battle a sadistic sergeant, fight violent desert tribes in North Africa, and… | read more »
Behind Enemy Lines is Mickey Edwards’ own story of his though uphill fight to assert conservative values as a freshman congressman and his battle to… | read more »
In Beyond Good and Evil Nietzche asserts that humanity is at the end of a long experiment with morality. We have defined and refined out… | read more »
In an age when computers are making ever greater inroads into out everyday lives, well may we ask: Do computers have intelligence? Are they living?… | read more »
When Paul Claudel died in Paris at the age of eighty-seven, on February 23, 1955, it was recognized that the era in French letters dominated… | read more »
Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond, a British infantry officer in the first World War, finds postwar life as a civilian “incredibly tedious.” So he places a classified… | read more »
America is in the grip of change, in the grip of an election year, in the grip of a new decade. The actions Americans take… | read more »
C.S. Lewis continues to fascinate and influence thousands of people over 25 years after his death. A Christian for All Christians looks at the influence… | read more »
Should any branch of the church take official positions injecting it into secular controversies on issues which it is possible, indeed reasonable and likely, for… | read more »
Using an engaging and witty style that is far removed from civics textbooks, Cleaning House convincingly sets out the case for term limits and how… | read more »
Clarence Thomas endured the most grueling and difficult Senate confirmation in history. His eloquence and courage electrified Americans from all backgrounds. Even powerful senators were… | read more »
John Locke’s Second Treatise on Civil Government constitutes one of the cardinal works of English political philosophy. His theories respecting the nature of the state… | read more »
Code Blue shows how the politically biased news media have skewed statistics to convince the public that Americans pay a higher price for inferior health… | read more »
The reader will discover a conception of history which has a place for human freedom, a firm defense of Western democracy and, as well a… | read more »
Here is the path-breaking book that rocketed a political philosophy into the forefront of the nation’s consciousness, written in words whose vigor and relevance have… | read more »
The constitutions of six Latin American nations–Chile, Colombia, Cost Rica, El Salvador, Mexico, and Venezuela–have been chosen by the editor as representative of the varieties… | read more »
No reference work on the U.S. Constitution has achieved more acclaim than this classic work by Joseph Story (1770-1840), Harvard Professor of Law and Justice… | read more »
Gerard Radnitzky develops a new perspective on the analysis of the growth of knowledge through metascientific methods. focusing on the two main contrasting contemporary schools–the… | read more »
Modern science has succeeded in showing that billions of years ago the physical universe was a relatively small though extremely specific entity whose subsequent evolution… | read more »
The Critique of War represents a notable attempt to come to grips with the problems of war and peace. The issues examined are basic to… | read more »
In the Crisis of Authority Msgr. George A. Kelly identifies the focus of tension in the Catholic Church in the United States today: the ambivalent… | read more »
An educator who knows the system from the inside lays the blame for education failure squarely on the doorsteps of the educational establishment. For more… | read more »
“It can hardly be said,” writes the translator, “that The Dybbuk is the product of one mind or even of one hand. Into its composition… | read more »
Here is cultural commentator Tom Bethell at the height of his craft. In The Electric Windmill he moves from the Kremlin to the homosexual districts… | read more »
In Environmental Overkill, Dr. Ray illustrates how good stewardship of the environment, scientific honesty, and even our constitutional liberties based on property rights are being… | read more »
Fat City is a taxpayer’s report showing how, where, and why the U.S. government misspends our money, and how it can reduce the amount it… | read more »
The vitality and growth of society as we know it in the Western nations is directly related to the aggregate vitality of the individuals who… | read more »
Students entering college will encounter differing viewpoints on primary questions concerning our society. What is the role of government in our everyday lives? Should the… | read more »
In this powerful, classic, first published in 1934, the eminent Swiss philosopher Max Picard argues that though the “flight from God” is not a phenomenon… | read more »
In For the Record, journalist Felix Morley, “relived the whole as it transpired,” and in so doing presents a fascinating picture of his own life… | read more »
In 1938, a young country lawyer, Carl T. Curtis won the seat in the House of Representatives of Nebraska’s Fourth Congressional District. He joined in… | read more »
Recognized as the definitive biography of Joseph Kennedy, grandson of a poor Irish immigrant, hard-driving founder of a great fortune, and father of the thirty-fifth… | read more »
In this first-rate analysis of America’s Civil War, best-selling author Sheldon VVanauken explains why the British Empire, which had sympathy for the Southern Confederacy, did… | read more »
Whittaker Chambers is one of the most controversial figures in modern American history–a former Communist spy who left the party, testified against Alger Hiss before… | read more »
One famous cosmologist claims that our universe may be a laboratory product from another universe. According to another the universe just happened by sheer chance…. | read more »
Some 1,052 government domestic programs aer available to help everyone from veterans to farmers to city officials. In an easy-to-use format, this second edition includes… | read more »
For three-quarters of a century, he exerted political clout in both New York Sate and the nation. His friends and enemies were among the celebrated… | read more »
“Angry Young Man” could just as well be used to describe the 25-year-old author of this abrasive book about Harvard University and the sorry state… | read more »
Albert Henry Krehbiel personified the historical movements in 10th century are in a remarkable way. A sturdy son of the Midwest, his academic training took… | read more »
Libey on Customers is for CEOs and CEOs-to-be of direct marketing companies, retail companies, manufactures, service organizations, and every business that needs customers for success…. | read more »
The purpose of this book is to provide a rational basis for determining what a government should do and what it should not do. Through… | read more »
“This book is a masterpiece. It embodies the wealth of modern exegetical criticism opened by Protestant theologians like Karl Barth, the greatest traditions of ‘devotio… | read more »
Why are so many white voters deserting the Democratic ranks? After covering the 1980, 1984, and the 1988 presidential campaigns, political journalist Peter Brown took… | read more »
An ardent treatise for the Dignity of Man, which elevates Humanism to a truly Christian level, making this writing as pertinent today as it was… | read more »
…a compelling, thoroughly documented, well-reported story–one that challenges readers to probe deeply into their own feelings about justice, racism, violence, police brutality, and media coverage…. | read more »
A guide to the width and depth of the intellectual framework behind today’s conservative movement. Wolfe examines conservative writings on such topics as economics, the… | read more »
“The Roots of American Order is destined to be accorded a distinctive status…Mr. Kirk is one of the few intellectuals with the breadth and depth… | read more »
Takes you inside the Imperial Congress to reveal what legislators prefer to keep hidden. The real problem is a remarkable abdication by congress or its… | read more »
Lewis Uhler shows how the American people can regain control of their financially irresponsible government and return more power to individuals, families, and private institutions… | read more »
A well researched, gripping look at the current Central America crisis. Whelan and Jaeckle show how civil wars pitting Marxism against democracy are threatening the… | read more »
If Abe Lincoln were re-born in the district of a powerful committee chairman today, he wouldn’t stand a chance of election, not because of merit,… | read more »
Charles J. Case brings to novice and experienced investor the revised, enlarged edition of his guide to the basic arithmetic used in stock investing, personal… | read more »
This new, exclusive report is the painstaking inquiry into the nature and extent of Communist influence on the U.S. media…. | read more »
Since the election of Ronald Regan, Third Generation conservatives have sought to put their stamp on all aspects of policy. As such, they are becoming… | read more »
Unaccountable Congress is an insider’s view by a man who came to the House after 22 years with one of the world’s leading accounting firms…. | read more »
In the beginning we knew them as scavengers. then as garbageman. then solid waste haulers. Then the dispensers of sophisticated environmental services. The changing language… | read more »
The international success story of the Lions Club. IT tells the tale of how practical-minded visionaries banded together 75 years ago in Chicago to create… | read more »
In this classic novel, the Roman Jew Ben-Hur is sent to the galleys as punishment for refusing to assist in the destruction of the Jewish… | read more »
In his thoughtful appraisal of a thinker who deserves to be more widely read than he has been, the author examines and elucidates Marcel’s philosophical… | read more »
The young physician Peter Blood, wrongly convicted of treason during the reign of King James II, is exiled from England and sold into slavery in… | read more »
Marx and Marxists spoke much of the “false consciousness” of people whose arguments are only superficially intellectual, being (though they themselves are unaware of it)… | read more »
America is in the grip of chagne, in teh grip of an election year, in the grip of a new decade. The actions we take… | read more »
In this and other lectures, Rueff proves incontestably that a country can rid itself of inflation only by permitting the purchasing of power of its… | read more »
Twenty years of studying, teaching, and writing on Dostoevsky, Professor Panichas devotes himself to the careful assessment of the religious themes and meanings of Dostoevksy’s… | read more »
These essays on criticism and aesthetics are not only lucid and serious introduction to the field, but are also intended for those well acquainted with… | read more »
In this classic analysis of metaphysics, the branch of philosophy that scholars in turn either hail as the source of all wisdom or condemn as… | read more »
This work was written by St. Augustine late in his life with the intention of supplying a well-educated Roman layman with a brief but comprehensive… | read more »
The four Dialogues in this volume were carefully selected by the eminent Plato scholar Moses Hadas as “a kind of beatification of Socrates. his pre-eminence… | read more »
First published in 1690, and revised four times by the author, Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding as enhanced his reputation that he eclipsed every rival… | read more »
It is with a view of determining the chief human good for the individual and the community alike, that Aristotle wrote his Ethics and Politics,… | read more »
In the past few decades phenomenology has left its imprint not only on philosophy but also on many branches of social sciences, including psychology, psychiatry,… | read more »
Evanesence looks into some shadows of thought which, while having their own sense, tend to disappear in the light of full rational investigation. God, the… | read more »
Philosopher, Sorbonne Professor, collaborator on Esprit and Yale Terry Lecturer, one of Europe’s foremost contemporary scholars gives a new dimension to Phenomenology with a profound… | read more »
The new story of science develops and explains the implications of the new physics for psychology, philosophy, religion and fine arts. Integrating a broad range… | read more »
Revolutions mark quantum-jumps in the history of nations: the development of the United States, France, Russia or China could not be understood without taking into… | read more »
Belloc describes his pilgrimage on foot from St. Cloud, France to Rome. While sleeping the the woods and walking 30 miles or more each day in… | read more »
The central place of Congress in the American political tradition, the decline of its power and prestige during the present century, and the possibilities of… | read more »
The chapters deal with the following subjects: the purpose of philosophy, the relation between th doctor and the patient, immortality, the truth of religion, and… | read more »
This is a serious, learned, and searching exploration of some of the most difficult questions which have ever concerned the human mind. It is also… | read more »
Probably the most complete systematic description and analysis available of the social and psychological dynamics of America adolescents in their natural social habitats. Basing their… | read more »
Constitutes a devastating attack on the Soviet regime, a moral indictment of the liberal West, and a Christian manifesto calling for a new society…. | read more »
Criticizes modern psychology in general, and Freud’s determinism in particular. His often brilliant analysis of these areas and his proposals for their correction indicate in… | read more »
Set against the historical background of the advent of Jesus Christ, and the eruption and movement of the Christian Church as it is known today,… | read more »
King Solomon’s Mines made Haggard famous, rightly, as one of the preeminent adventure novelists in the English language. The chronicle of big-game hunter Allan Quatermain’s… | read more »
St. Thomas Aquinas is the central figure of scholasticism, embodying the highest achievements of Late Medieval thought. His work is remarkable demonstration of thoroughness, organization,… | read more »
A collection of 12 contrasting tales of the widely diverse sub-culture that man’s ancient association with the horse has brought into being: the world of… | read more »
To read Hobbs on his own terms is to discover a provocative rival to contemporary perspectives on morals and politics, one that challenges widely shared… | read more »