Inspired by Liberty and Virtue

The Trivium in Antebellum America

E. Christian Kopff

E. Christian Kopff in First Things

An Ancient Clash of Civilizations by Christian Kopff

If he is a recent addition to the staff of contributors, would this explain his recent criticism of the editors of Chronicles?

John Randolph Club Conference 2015

audio recordings for sale

Peter Brimelow: Brimelow In Cleveland: Nation, State, Secession—And An American Reconquest Of America

The Importance of the Classical Education for Christians

Why Christians Need the Classical Tradition by E. Christian Kopff

The Old Guard

Thinking Outside the Boxes by Thomas Fleming
Last of the Romans by E. Christian Kopff

The 23rd Annual Meeting of The John Randolph Club

JRC Chicago: The Failure of Democracy - November 16-18, 2012

Speakers are Thomas Fleming, Chilton Williamson, Taki, E. Christian Kopff, Claude Polin, Peter Brimelow, and Aaron D. Wolf.

Classical Education in the Bay Area

Is Live Oak Academy the only school in the area that offers some version of classical education? Are there enough parents (Catholic or otherwise) in the South Bay to financially support a Catholic school offering a classical education? How does one go about organizing for the foundation for such a school? One would think that such an effort would be founded on the contributions of traditional(ist) Catholics, many of whom are already homeschooling. There was a school associated with St. Stephen the Martyr up in Sacramento, but it had to close. Did the parents there start homeschooling or did they send their children to other schools in the area? Trinity Prep would be a bit far...

Nothing has materialized around St. Margaret Mary in Oakland, as far as I know. The Catholics there homeschool or... ? The same is true of OLP.

Given the bad economic times maintaining an independent Catholic classical school may just be too much here. And if it were to attempt to have some sort of edible schoolyard program? One would have to first persuade the parents that that sort of focus on practical living skills is necessary for the times ahead.

Circe Institute
Veritas Press
Memoria Press
Classical Academic Press

An interview with E. Christian Kopff from May by Western Word Radio - mp3.

From 2010:
The Sunic Journal: Interview with Dr. E. Christian Kopff, #1 of 2 (mp3)
Part 2: mp3
Julius Evola & Radical Traditionalism

While going through ISI's YT channel, Educating for Liberty, I found the lecture series, Conservative Intellectual Tradition in America . What sort of "conservatism" is being defined if the series includes Newt Gingrich as one of its speakers?

Then there is the John Jay Institute:

Conservatism as a form of liberalism.

Misc.
PSM 01: AAM, Mahan Esfahani
2012 Season, Proms Saturday Matinees

"Harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani joins the Academy of Ancient Music to perform Bach's Art of Fugue in a new instrumental arrangement by Esfahani himself. In doing so he revives the informal spirit of Bach's Leipzig coffee house concerts, in which the composer would direct his own band of musicians."

(Access to the audio will be available for 3 more days.)

E. Christian Kopff on Chronicles Unbound

The podcasts for last Friday's show with the Rockford Institute are now available.

Dr. E. Christian Kopff on "Classical Greek Philosophy and American Democratic Thought"

Two more from the Imaginative Conservative

A Little Rebellion by Clyde N. Wilson


Inspired by Liberty & Virtue: The Education of the Founders of the American Republic (video)

"A slightly revised text version of this address can be found here."

Items of Interest, 31 March 2012

Srdja Trifkovic, Sarkozy the Demagogue

Patrick Buchanan, It's All About Race Now

GARETH PORTER, Israel Shields Public from Risks of War with Iran

Classical Greek Philosophy and American Democratic Thought


Solzhenitsyn, Russell Kirk, and the Moral Imagination by Edward E. Ericson, Jr.
How Reading Josef Pieper Can Help You Stay Sane by Robert M. Woods
The Meaning of Liberty During the American Revolution
by Bradley J. Birzer

Jack Donovan:
interview

There are a lot of ways I could define that group. In an ideological sense, I want to live around people who have the same ideas about how the world should be, because that means we are all working in some harmony and chugging along in the same general direction, rather than working against one another. People “like myself” would also be people who share a similar frame of reference, so that we can speak in a cultural shorthand, understand each other, and trust each other to some degree. I grew up in a white American middle class family with solid working class roots. I am not from millionaires or French aristocrats, and I don’t know ‘bout no ghetto. My pap worked on the railroad and my dad plays horseshoes. I’ve never worked on a train and I suck at horseshoes, but I have a connection with folks like that. Those are my people.

Believing in the same order as a foundation for [civic] friendship. Not just agreeinment upon common goods, but upon the means to those goods.

Feminism leads to an attempt at matriarchy:  "Women do not want men in isolated groups together without female supervision, because women know that brother-bonded men set their own values and stop looking to women for guidance or approval."
Andy Nowicki, In Defense of Squares: A Response to Jack Donovan

Economics:
David Rosen, We Are All Luddites
Tired of waiting for the barbarians by Erik Curren (EB)
The Collapse of Complex Societies (review) by Akshay Ahuja (EB)

Christianity:
An Atheist Argues for Europe's Christianity

Gardening:
The Beauty of Dirty Hands

Feminism:
Q & A with Gov. Madeleine Kunin on “the new feminist agenda”
A true believer who can get by being a true believer because of her material advantages.

Movies:
Roger Ebert's review of October Baby. (The Deep Blue Sea)

Music:
Ron Stewart and Earl Scruggs

Wendy MacIsaac:


Fashion:
The Arrogant Aggression of Scruffy Jeans

Items of Interest, 18 March 2012

Rod Dreher, Why Conservatism Can't Win

St. Calhoun, Part I by Bradley J. Birzer - Part II

Brig. Gen. Paul J. LaCamera to be deputy commanding general at USASOC

Intelligible Goods, Marriage, and Intellectual Conversion by R.J. Snell

Executive War Powers Have Strict Constitutional Limits

Galileo: Anti-Hero of Science

Paul Gottfried, Obama's Grievance Politics
“National Defense Resources Preparedness” executive order: Power grab or mere update?

Wisconsin Senate Passes Healthcare Freedom Act
Conservatives Slam House GOP For "Betrayal" of States' Rights
Free Sterilizations Must be Offered to All College Women, Says HHS

So will the American bishops and Catholic institutions work with states to block Obamacare so that at least the Church will be protected in some areas? Or will they just play along with the rules of the nationalist system so that they can act the martyr?

Because of the latest developments, it once again appears that it might be better to support the Grand Oligarchy Party even though it gives scraps to social conservatives, because it at least won't be as radical as Obama if it controls the executive. Though there is no reason to think that the party will resist changes coming from any of the branches of the National Government. It will undoubtedly continue to promote oligarchy and as a result, pave the way for further destruction of economic freedom and community.

Is there a way to get around the requirements of Obamacare by changing labor contracts, so that employees are more like contractors or consultants?

Church Not State by D.G. Hart
Christians must choose between faith or worldly relevance

Grit Artisan: The Other Side of Racism

Study Finds That Corn Insecticides Are to Blame for Deaths of Honeybees

Nations, Liberalism, and Science by Peter Augustine Lawler

Economics:
Richard Heinberg, What is Sustainability
Alternative finance radicals: Infusing rebellion with entrepreneurial creativity
The Truth About “Free Trade” by David S. D'Amato
Big Oil, Big Government, and Big Hypocrisy by Kevin Carson

Catholic:
William Oddie, Bishop Davies of Shrewsbury says we need to face the reality of hell during Lent. It’s such an unusual thing for a bishop to say that it made a Herald headline

The Mystery of Monasticism: History, Spirituality and Vocation

Education:
E. Christian Kopff, Greek to US: The Death of Classical Education and Its Consequences
Shannon Hayes, From Homeschooling to Unschooling


Diet and Health:
The 4th MovNat principle: Practical
Triathlete’s paleo diet with bone broth dramatically reduces osteoarthritis pain

Music:
Watch Jason Aldean's 'Fly Over States' Video BY HUNTER HAUK

Heejun Han Performs Right Here Waiting on American Idol

Stile Antico "Tune thy Musicke to thy Hart" : Tudor & Jacobean music for private devotion

More poseuwear:
Glock Apparel

Larry Vickers:




Product Review Haley AK-74 Rifle

TV:
Person of Interest Renewed!

Can I get a job with Benchmade? Fed grant to help Oregon companies hiring & training .

Classical education and the Anglo-American political tradition

Inspired by Liberty & Virtue: The Education of the Founders of the American Republic
by E. Christian Kopff

E. Christian Kopff, Julius Evola & Radical Traditionalism

ISI lectures on the American founding

The Philadelphia Miracle — NEW (mp3)
E. Christian Kopff, Associate Professor of Classics and Associate Director of the Honors Program, University of Colorado
Adolphus Hotel, Dallas, TX
3/14/2009
The Roots of America Order Seminar

America's Judeo-Christian History — NEW (mp3)
Bradley J. Birzer, Professor of History, Hillsdale College
Adolphus Hotel, Dallas, TX
3/14/2009
The Roots of America Order Seminar

America's Greek and Roman Roots — NEW (mp3)
Bruce S. Thornton, Professor of Classics and Humanities, California State University, Fresno
Adolphus Hotel, Dallas, TX
3/14/2009
The Roots of America Order Seminar

America's Englishness — NEW (mp3)
Mark C. Henrie, Editor, The Intercollegiate Review
Adolphus Hotel, Dallas, TX
3/14/2009
The Roots of America Order Seminar

E. Christian Kopff, The Fear of God

Despite the humorous title, David Gless in From Plato to NATO: The Idea of the West and Its Opponents (1998) makes a powerful case for the validity of a grand narrative informed by the notion that what is distinctive and vital in the West derives from the assimilation and mutual interaction of Classical, Christian, and German. When great periods of creativity and freedom appear in Europe and America, they are often associated with those who value the three traditions, not as inassimilable entities, but as containing complementary elements which are essential for human fulfillment and societal greatness.

All three traditions were formative and creative in the High Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the American Founding. When Dante writes about his political ideas in Monarchia, for instance, he describes an empire that is Roman, Christian, and German. Bernard Bailyn’s The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967) described the Classical, Christian and German (or Common Law) traditions behind the American Revolution (though he also began the bad habit of privileging one tradition over the others, in his case, English Whig thought.) As Carl Richard noticed in The Founders and the Classics: Greece, Rome, and the American Enlightenment (1994),

To the founders, there was but one worthy tradition, the tradition of liberty, and they would not have understood the modern historian’s need to distinguish between the classical and Whig traditions and to measure the influence of one against the other.

Before they were Christianized, did other tribes and nations have differing notions of freedom or liberty?