Sunday, April 26, 2009

Lost in Russell Kirk tonight...

Eric Voegelin

I had an exhausting week, and I am a bit weakened still by the end of my flu and perhaps some spring allergies.

After Mass today we ate lunch, and I slept the rest of the afternoon. When I awoke, my wife and daughter were visiting at a neighbor's house. I stayed in bed and read the next-to-the-last chapter of Russell Kirk's Enemies of the Permanent Things, the chapter on Eric Voegelin. I am still digesting it. It is worth more than one post when I get a chance. Of course, I'm not the only one posting about Kirk: here is one at the Mackinac Center, one by a grad student in California,Robert Thomas Llizo, and one by a Lousiana homeschooling mother.

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