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The Catholic ThingA New Age of the Church?by David G. Bonagura, Jr.
Christopher Dawson (1889-1970), Catholic convert and eminent historian of culture, despised the tripartite division of both secular and ecclesiastical history into early, medieval, and modern periods. For the Church's history, by his erudite reckoning, there are six ages, each lasting three or four centuries. "Each of them begins, and end, in crisis," he writes in one of his final books, The Historic Reality of Christian Culture.
From the crisis point, each age, except the first, spanning from Pentecost to Constantine's conversion, passes through three phases of growth and then decay: intense spiritual activity...
2025-07-3106 min
Cultural DebrisCD 29 - Luke Sheahan on The University Bookman and Academic FreedomLuke Sheahan of Duquesne University and the newly appointed editor of The University Bookman, a book review journal founded by Russell Kirk and edited by him until his death. Dr. Sheahan steps into the role left vacant by the passing of the great Gerald Russello, someone we all greatly miss.
Dr. Sheahan and I discuss his plans for the Bookman, the debate between Russell Kirk and William F. Buckley on academic freedom, and the fundamental need for associations and the freedom of association as outlined by Robert Nisbet.
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2022-10-051h 16
Criteria: The Catholic Film PodcastThe Mission (1986) w/ Gerald RusselloIt's remarkable that as recently as 1986, we had a hit movie, with A-list stars (Jeremy Irons, Robert De Niro) and an A-list composer (Ennio Morricone), that takes a nuanced look at a controversial historical subject, European Christian missionary activity. The Mission could not be made today. The Mission was written by Robert Bolt (A Man for All Seasons, Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago) and directed by Roland Joffe (The Killing Fields, There Be Dragons). Gerald Russello, editor of the University Bookman, joins James and Thomas to discuss the film's moral complexity in dealing with sin, repent...
2021-08-131h 19
The Well-Read Catholic8. Are Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Enough? A Conversation with Gerald RusselloPatrick interviews Gerald Russello, editor of The University Bookman, about his recent article in the Intercollegiate Review: It's Time for Conservatives to Stop Being Content with J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis.
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Bradley Birzer's Beyond Tenebrae: Christian Humanism in the Twilight of the West
The Novels Charles Williams
10 Blatantly Obvious Christ Figures in the 'Star Wars' Universe via the Babylon Bee
Nick Ripatrazone's Longing for an Absent God: Faith and Doubt in Great American Fiction
And also the writings of Stratford Caldecott on the...
2020-03-2628 min
Public IntellectualYou Can Talk to a Conservative Like a Normal Human Being (with Gerald Russello) Gerald Russello, the editor of University Bookman and conservative intellectual, joins Jessa Crispin to talk about the growing political divide in American politics, and how the left is just as annoying as the right. Support this podcast: patreon.com/publicintellectual
2020-01-271h 06
The New Criterion PodcastsGerald J. Russello on Kirk & the unwritten constitutionGerald J. Russello on Russell Kirk’s legal philosophy, part of a series occasioned by Kirk’s centenary, published in the January 2019 issue of The New Criterion.
https://newcriterion.com/issues/2019/1/the-unwritten-constitution
2019-01-1035 min
The Hauenstein Center Collection#79: Gerald Russello on The University Bookman and Conservative MagazinesThis week, we hear from Gerald Russello, editor of The University Bookman, a publication founded in 1960 by the traditionalist conservative Russell Kirk.
The University Bookman, like most conservative magazines and journals, is a site where, implicitly or explicitly, there is a debate about what the word “conservative” even means. A couple weeks ago, The Washington Post profiled a number of magazines on the right that have been forced, by the rise of Trump and Trumpism, to stake a claim: is Trump conservative? Is the Republican Party conservative? Who really gets to decide?
Gerald Russello provides an interesting perspective on this ques...
2018-02-1449 min
Beyond Aporia, A Common Ground Podcast#79: Gerald Russello on The University Bookman and Conservative MagazinesThis week, we hear from Gerald Russello, editor of The University Bookman, a publication founded in 1960 by the traditionalist conservative Russell Kirk.
The University Bookman, like most conservative magazines and journals, is a site where, implicitly or explicitly, there is a debate about what the word “conservative” even means. A couple weeks ago, The Washington Post profiled a number of magazines on the right that have been forced, by the rise of Trump and Trumpism, to stake a claim: is Trump conservative? Is the Republican Party conservative? Who really gets to decide?
Gerald Russello provides an interesting perspective on this ques...
2018-02-1449 minThe Hauenstein Center Collection#79: Gerald Russello on The University Bookman and Conservative MagazinesThis week, we hear from Gerald Russello, editor of The University Bookman, a publication founded in 1960 by the traditionalist conservative Russell Kirk.
The University Bookman, like most conservative magazines and journals, is a site where, implicitly or explicitly, there is a debate about what the word “conservative” even means. A couple weeks ago, The Washington Post profiled a number of magazines on the right that have been forced, by the rise of Trump and Trumpism, to stake a claim: is Trump conservative? Is the Republican Party conservative? Who really gets to decide?
Gerald Russello provides an interesting perspective on this ques...
2018-02-1449 min