Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to help us to … - Russell Kirk

Global environmentalists have said and written enough to leave no doubt that their goal is to destroy the prosperous economies of the world's richest nations.

A thorough survey of Randolph's reading defeats such an effort. The Virginian had, certainly, a lively interest in the writers of his day, but his admiration for the Romantics was strictly qualified, as his correspondence with Francis Walker Gilmer, Brockenbrough, Francis Scott Key, and Josiah Quincy shows.

Ordinary human laws are the means — however imperfect — by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law.