Some of the recent additions to First Principles Journal:
Last Things: On the Preservation of Kindness by James V. Schall, S.J. - 05/06/09
Elegy for Popular Catholic Literature by Virgil P. Nemoianu - 05/01/09

And at The Catholic Thing:
The Catholic Church and the Death Penalty By George Marlin
Practical Romance By Brad Miner

3 More from First Principles

Education and the Individual
Richard M. Weaver (IR 2:1, September 1965) - 05/09/08

How to Read the Declaration: Reconsidering the Kendall Thesis
M. E. Bradford (IR 28:1, Fall 1992) - 05/08/08

Leo Strauss, George Grant, and Historicism
Gregory S. Butler (IR 31:1, Fall 1995) - 05/07/08

Hrm, so George Grant is a "Straussian"--interesting.

In conclusion, Grant holds on to the possibility that a rejection of modernity may take place in the very historical act of living in it and through it. Unlike doctrinaire followers of Straussian orthodoxy, Grant holds out the possibility of loving the very darkness of modernity, because it may very well be the means by which divine Providence itself is working to cast a light back on the truth of the past. For this reason his writings do not rely heavily on a rationalist appeal through dialectics; they involve an almost obsessive probing of the tragedy and darkness of the modern “cave.” As a Christian, Grant is able to see in the mysterious, unplanned workings of history a revelatory force capable of drawing man back into God, a force that (ironically) becomes present at the moment when modernity has reached its apex.

If this is an accurate representation of Grant's thought, then I think it's an overly optimistic understanding of modernity and its relationship to God (if we accept that there is such a phenomena as modernity, which is somehow different from the sinfulness of man).

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First Principles round-up

Is There a Political Philosophy in the Declaration of Independence?
James R. Stoner, Jr. (IR 40:2, Fall/Winter 2005) - 05/01/08

Is there a political philosophy in the Declaration of Independence? One step toward answering this question—not the only step, but from the philosopher’s point of view the most fundamental—is to ask whether the “self-evident truths” of the Declaration are really true after all....

Philosophical and Religious Dimensions of the American Founding
Ellis Sandoz (IR 30:2, Spring 1995) - 04/30/08

The foundation of the American regime was deeply influenced by the rationalist mood of Enlightenment thought, prima¬rily in its English and Scottish aspects. But it began and remained more fundamen¬tally an antimodernist recovery and rearticulation of Western and English con¬stitutionalism on the classical and medi¬eval patterns identified with the seventeenth century of Sir Edward Coke, a principal figure of the Elizabethan Renaissance, and of John Locke, himself a principal enlightener…

Marriage, Passion, and the Individual, Part I
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese - 05/01/08

Until recently, even the harshest critics of marriage never denied that, for better or worse, its nature and purpose have been to unite a man and a woman. Much of the rising tide of criticism leveled at marriage focuses precisely on the tensions of attempting to bridge sexual difference. Ironically, this growing dissatisfaction has corresponded with the most sustained attempt to link marriage to romantic love. . . .

Marriage, Passion, and the Individual, Part II
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese - 05/02/08

Premodern conceptions of marriage had far more to do with creating and preserving social and economic stability for a family, clan, or nation than with finding satisfaction for the unpredictable demands of personal happiness. When so large a share of social order depended upon marriage, love could only be viewed as disruptive. Like Greek and Roman myths, medieval European culture abounded with tales of unruly and untamable passions. . . .

Roger Scruton, Conservatives are Conservationists

Conservatives Are Conservationists
Roger Scruton (MA 49:4, Fall 2007) - 04/11/08

A good partner piece for his AmCon article.

An older article by PCR in the Intercollegiate Review has also been posted at First Principles:
The Political Economy of Bureaucratic Imperialism
P. Craig Roberts (from IR 12:1, Fall 1976) - 04/10/08

The Rise and Fall of the Private Individual

The Social Revolution through which private individuals were created hand-in-hand with the creation of private property began with the Inclosures in the twelth century and attained its greatest flowering in the nineteenth century. Prior to the appearance of private property, private individuals did not exist. There existed only the rulers and the ruled, lords and serfs.

A serf was a person who did not own his own labor. Although he was not himself owned by another, that is, he could not be bought and sold like a slave, the feudal nobility, the state of that time, had rights over the serf’s labor. When we say that a peasant was enserfed, we mean that he owed a certain amount of his working time to the state. Over time and regions this obligation seems to have averaged about one-third of a serf’s working life.

His historical understanding is perhaps a bit too libertarian... I'll have to read through the whole thing and compare it with James Burnham's The Managerial Revolution (B&N), Sam Francis's Revolution from the Middle, and Paul Gottfried's After Liberalism: Mass Democracy in the Managerial State. Of course, I'll have to read those as well in order to make the comparison. Ha!

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