The Neglected Genius of Hilaire Belloc (essay by Joseph Pearce) https://t.co/LoFKD4pdYW
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Showing posts with label Belloc. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 27, 2021
Joseph Pearce on Hilaire Belloc
Monday, July 27, 2020
Hilaire Belloc. Eternal Memory.
Today is the 150th anniversary of the birth of Hilaire Belloc, an important figure in Catholic economics and social policy.
— Leonine Institute (@leoinstituteCST) July 27, 2020
Please check out his writing!https://t.co/JvCgbTRlbX
CWR: Hilaire Belloc: Defender of the Faith by Joseph Pearce
“Belloc’s understanding of intellectual history and the clash of cultures,” says biographer Joseph Pearce, “especially with respect to the history of Christendom, is simply astonishing.”
Monday, January 21, 2019
One of the Few Good Things Currently Up at the Law and Liberty Website
Belloc’s Humane Defense of Personhood and Property by James Matthew Wilson
Perhaps the memory of that metaphysical right to property informs our fears, and could lead to a restoration of human flourishing.
Perhaps the memory of that metaphysical right to property informs our fears, and could lead to a restoration of human flourishing.
Saturday, October 15, 2016
NLM: Edward the Confessor and John the Evangelist by Gregory DiPippo
Related: Joseph Pearce, Belloc Versus Tolkien: To Views on Anglo-Saxon England
Related: Joseph Pearce, Belloc Versus Tolkien: To Views on Anglo-Saxon England
Saturday, July 23, 2016
CWR Blog: Revisiting Belloc’s "Characters of the Reformation" By K. V. Turley
The study, published 80 years ago, demonstrates how history is shaped and marked by the character of men and women.
The study, published 80 years ago, demonstrates how history is shaped and marked by the character of men and women.
Monday, November 09, 2015
Friday, November 14, 2014
Monday, November 10, 2014
An Exchange on Tolkien
Distributism in the Shire: The Political Kinship of Tolkien & Belloc by Joseph Pearce
Tolkien vs. Belloc on Distributism: A Response to Joseph Pearce by Jay Wesley Richards and Jonathan Witt (authors of that Hobbit Party book)
Tolkien vs. Belloc on Distributism: A Response to Joseph Pearce by Jay Wesley Richards and Jonathan Witt (authors of that Hobbit Party book)
Saturday, March 08, 2014
Tuesday, August 06, 2013
Wage Slavery and the Loss of Economic Freedom
Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today's
One of capitalism's most durable myths is that it has reduced human toil. This myth is typically defended by a comparison of the modern forty-hour week with its seventy- or eighty-hour counterpart in the nineteenth century. The implicit -- but rarely articulated -- assumption is that the eighty-hour...
One of capitalism's most durable myths is that it has reduced human toil. This myth is typically defended by a comparison of the modern forty-hour week with its seventy- or eighty-hour counterpart in the nineteenth century. The implicit -- but rarely articulated -- assumption is that the eighty-hour...
Tuesday, May 07, 2013
Supply Shock
Supply Shock: The Journey by Brian Czech
New Society: Guest Post - Brian Czech - Supply Shock
Jubilee Society
New Society Publishers
Misc.
An Evil Means to a Good End? – Another Reflection on Hilaire Belloc’s “An Essay on the Restoration of Property” by John Creech
Small vs. Big, Local vs. Global by Nancy Folbre
New Society: Guest Post - Brian Czech - Supply Shock
Jubilee Society
New Society Publishers
Misc.
An Evil Means to a Good End? – Another Reflection on Hilaire Belloc’s “An Essay on the Restoration of Property” by John Creech
Small vs. Big, Local vs. Global by Nancy Folbre
Monday, March 11, 2013
Sunday, December 04, 2011
Items of Interest, 4 December 2011
Dr. Fleming, Democracy Comes to Egypt
James Howard Kunstler, Suspended Civilization
Fabius Maximus: RIP, Constitution. The Second Republic died this week. Of course, we don’t care (that’s why it died).
Craig Holland Dixon, Will Due Process Cease to Exist for Americans?
Paul Craig Roberts, The Obama Regime Has No Constitutional Scruples
Karen De Coster, Public Education, Meet the Newest Bullies on the Block and Federal Bully Pulpit
Economics:
The Restoration of Property
Distributism and the Supremes
Relocalization:
Britta Riley: A Garden in My Apartment
100 Best Permaculture & Homesteading Books: The Ultimate Reading List for Sustainable Living
LOCAL - A Short Documentary
LOCAL - A Short Documentary from Christian Remde on Vimeo.
Energy:
The myth of renewable energy - Dawn Stover, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (via EB)
Peak Engineering
Diet and Health:
Vox Populi: Exposing Injectors
Free the Animal: Unifying Nutrition: Osteoporosis and Atherosclerosis May be Linked: Vitamin K2 and The 21 Convention: My Presentation to 20-Somethings
Who says the whole world can’t eat paleo?
Toadally Primal Smoothies: The eBook
Kurt Harris: Jimmy Moore inquires about "safe starches"
James Howard Kunstler, Suspended Civilization
Fabius Maximus: RIP, Constitution. The Second Republic died this week. Of course, we don’t care (that’s why it died).
Craig Holland Dixon, Will Due Process Cease to Exist for Americans?
Paul Craig Roberts, The Obama Regime Has No Constitutional Scruples
Karen De Coster, Public Education, Meet the Newest Bullies on the Block and Federal Bully Pulpit
Economics:
The Restoration of Property
Distributism and the Supremes
Relocalization:
Britta Riley: A Garden in My Apartment
100 Best Permaculture & Homesteading Books: The Ultimate Reading List for Sustainable Living
LOCAL - A Short Documentary
LOCAL - A Short Documentary from Christian Remde on Vimeo.
Energy:
The myth of renewable energy - Dawn Stover, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (via EB)
Peak Engineering
Diet and Health:
Vox Populi: Exposing Injectors
Free the Animal: Unifying Nutrition: Osteoporosis and Atherosclerosis May be Linked: Vitamin K2 and The 21 Convention: My Presentation to 20-Somethings
Who says the whole world can’t eat paleo?
Toadally Primal Smoothies: The eBook
Kurt Harris: Jimmy Moore inquires about "safe starches"
Monday, October 17, 2011
A liberal view of history
This was posted at a certain FB group: The Air I Breathe by L.Neil Smith. Note the emphasis on the individual, an exaggerated notion of liberty, and progress. It is given as a libertarian view of history, which is but one liberal version of history, akin to the Whiggish interpretation. Christopher Ferrara has written against the Austrians about the origins of the development of English capitalism vis-à-vis the enclosures (parts II and III). I think Kevin Carson has done so well. There would not have been the development of modern English capitalism (or British power) without the state.
The protection of liberty as a check on the abuse of power and bad governments may be even more important in a republic than in those polities where only one or a few rule. Nonetheless, in itself it is not the end of society, and libertarians who take the negative conception of liberty or freedom too far so as to deny the government's legitimate protection of morality are wrong.
One can see a tension between traditional conservatism and liberal conservatism at websites like ISI and its First Principles Journal. Another thing to note is how many contemporary conservatives talk about "Western civilization" without acknowledging the centrality of Christianity to American or European civilization. Some may be trying to advance a post-Christian version of Western civilization or to communicate with a non-Christian audience; others are just liberals attempting to claim that their tradition goes further back in antiquity than it really does.*
Russell Kirk who is held dear by many conservatives, was not a liberal but a Christian and he held the Christian understanding of Western understanding. See his "The Common Heritage of America and Europe," for example. Other exponents of the Christian understanding would be Christopher Dawson (The Making of Europe) or Hilaire Belloc (Europe and the Faith).
Even if it is possible "in theory" to maintain certain aspects of Western culture without being them vivified by Christ, can we separate the de-Christianization of the West from the spiritual warfare that is behind it? Besides, while most conservatives in academia and so on are trying to spread their ideas and message to a broad audience, what are they doing, as citizens, to further the cause of localism (states' rights, for example), or to counter corporatism? Too many hold on to the ideology of capitalism as a part of their conservatism, many of whom do not have real-life experience as a producer or laborer, occupying rather privileged positions in society instead. The university, for the most part, no longer exists as a locus of culture, neither representing the community nor serving it and its interests. It's just another part of the system seeking to perpetuate it in order to preserve itself.
The time for lectures is over -- one must be an example of what one believes.
*This would not apply to paleolibertarians like Tom Woods who acknowledge the centrality of Christianity but nonetheless attempt to interpret the silver age scholastics as being precursors of the Austrian school.
Related:
An Austrian responds to Christopher Ferrara's book The Church and the Libertarian (a review of that book by Thomas Storck - letters to the editor)
Christopher A. Ferrara: The Church & the Libertarian: A Defense of Catholic Teaching on Man, Economy and State (mp3)
Paleocrat's YT channel
Russell Kirk: The Conservative Convert
The protection of liberty as a check on the abuse of power and bad governments may be even more important in a republic than in those polities where only one or a few rule. Nonetheless, in itself it is not the end of society, and libertarians who take the negative conception of liberty or freedom too far so as to deny the government's legitimate protection of morality are wrong.
One can see a tension between traditional conservatism and liberal conservatism at websites like ISI and its First Principles Journal. Another thing to note is how many contemporary conservatives talk about "Western civilization" without acknowledging the centrality of Christianity to American or European civilization. Some may be trying to advance a post-Christian version of Western civilization or to communicate with a non-Christian audience; others are just liberals attempting to claim that their tradition goes further back in antiquity than it really does.*
Russell Kirk who is held dear by many conservatives, was not a liberal but a Christian and he held the Christian understanding of Western understanding. See his "The Common Heritage of America and Europe," for example. Other exponents of the Christian understanding would be Christopher Dawson (The Making of Europe) or Hilaire Belloc (Europe and the Faith).
Even if it is possible "in theory" to maintain certain aspects of Western culture without being them vivified by Christ, can we separate the de-Christianization of the West from the spiritual warfare that is behind it? Besides, while most conservatives in academia and so on are trying to spread their ideas and message to a broad audience, what are they doing, as citizens, to further the cause of localism (states' rights, for example), or to counter corporatism? Too many hold on to the ideology of capitalism as a part of their conservatism, many of whom do not have real-life experience as a producer or laborer, occupying rather privileged positions in society instead. The university, for the most part, no longer exists as a locus of culture, neither representing the community nor serving it and its interests. It's just another part of the system seeking to perpetuate it in order to preserve itself.
The time for lectures is over -- one must be an example of what one believes.
*This would not apply to paleolibertarians like Tom Woods who acknowledge the centrality of Christianity but nonetheless attempt to interpret the silver age scholastics as being precursors of the Austrian school.
Related:
An Austrian responds to Christopher Ferrara's book The Church and the Libertarian (a review of that book by Thomas Storck - letters to the editor)
Christopher A. Ferrara: The Church & the Libertarian: A Defense of Catholic Teaching on Man, Economy and State (mp3)
Paleocrat's YT channel
Russell Kirk: The Conservative Convert
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Was Hilaire Belloc a liberal?
Ite ad Thomas has the links to the arguments presented at Tradition in Action, which I would not deem to be a reliable website for "traditional" Catholicism. A copy of Belloc's The French Revolution has been put online by Google. (LibriVox, Project Gutenberg) How does his history compare with Toqueville's? I remember starting Belloc's history, but I never got past the introduction -- I did flinch at what seemed to be a positive appraisal of modern French republicanism. I should re-examine Belloc's republicanism/political theory--I would be shocked if someone who should be so critical of the modern nation-state would nonetheless accept one form of it as being an ideal.
Thought and Action: Belloc and the French Revolution
Thought and Action: Belloc and the French Revolution
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Zenit: Hilaire Belloc: Prophet for Our Times
Father C. John McCloskey on Rediscovering a Warrior for the Faith
By Annamarie Adkins
(via RA)
Father C. John McCloskey on Rediscovering a Warrior for the Faith
By Annamarie Adkins
(via RA)
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Monday, February 19, 2007
4 Essays on Hilaire Belloc
Hilaire Belloc: Defender of the Faith
FREDERICK D. WILHELMSEN
Why Belloc Still Matters
Was Hilaire Belloc sometimes careless? Yes. Impolitic? Certainly. Is he irrelevant to 21st-century concerns? Never.
By R. J. Stove
Hilaire Belloc "and All the Rest of It"
Hilaire Belloc's View of History
by John J. Mulloy
Hilaire Belloc: On a Hermit Whom I Knew
FREDERICK D. WILHELMSEN
Why Belloc Still Matters
Was Hilaire Belloc sometimes careless? Yes. Impolitic? Certainly. Is he irrelevant to 21st-century concerns? Never.
By R. J. Stove
Hilaire Belloc "and All the Rest of It"
Hilaire Belloc's View of History
by John J. Mulloy
Hilaire Belloc: On a Hermit Whom I Knew
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