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Articles by Bradley J. Birzer

About Bradley J. Birzer
Bradley J. Birzer is author of biographies of J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, and Christopher Dawson. He is Professor of History at Hillsdale College and was the second Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy at the University of Colorado-Boulder. His most recent book is the acclaimed biography Russell Kirk: A Conservative Life (University Press of Kentucky, 2015). Visit him online at his personal website "Stormfields".
Essay

Catholicism and the American Founding

July 3, 2019 Bradley J. Birzer 28

Natural Law, common law, Natural Rights, and localism—all so dear to the Founding—existed in 1776, simply put, because of the Catholic Church. […]

Essay

Russell Kirk: Conservative, Convert, Catholic

October 19, 2018 Bradley J. Birzer 2

Editor’s note: This essay was originally posted on July 31, 2014, and is re-posted to mark the 100th anniversary of Kirk’s birth. Ordinarily Providence works through men and women—through St. Gregory, through St. Joan. Saints […]

The Dispatch

10 Things You Should Know about Catholics and the American Founding

July 3, 2017 Bradley J. Birzer 4

Editor’s note: This essay originally appeared on CWR on July 3, 2016. In my essay “10 Things You Should Know About the American Founding” I focused on some little-known facts about the American Founding in […]

Father Marvin R. O’Connell, requiescat in pace

August 20, 2016 Bradley J. Birzer 1

On August 19, 2016, Father Marvin R. O’Connell passed away in South Bend, Indiana.  Author of a number of critical studies—biographical as well as historical and philosophical—O’Connell taught in the history department of the University […]

Books

The Protestant who wrote the greatest book about American Catholicism

April 2, 2016 Bradley J. Birzer 0

“I am amused that so many of the reviews of this book begin with the statement: ‘This book is hard to classify.’ Then why bother?”—Willa Cather, 1927 Willa Cather’s novel—or “narrative” in the style of […]

Books

The Story of Kullervo and the origins of Tolkien’s legendarium

January 28, 2016 Bradley J. Birzer 0

Looking back on his time in World War I—something he hated to discuss—J.R.R. Tolkien revealed that he had written some of the first parts of his massive legendarium under less-than-ideal circumstances. He had conceived The […]

History

“Order”: The Brief and Extraordinary Life of a Catholic Movement

September 13, 2015 Bradley J. Birzer 0

Almost no one remembers the short-lived journal, Order, as it appeared over eighty years ago and only lasted four issues. But the journal, which appeared the late 1920s, set off a chain of events that […]

History

10 Things You Should Know About the American Founding

July 3, 2015 Bradley J. Birzer 0

In 1776, numerous individuals, families, committees, congregations, localities, and states had already proclaimed their independence, and almost no remaining imperial structure could continue to operate with any legitimacy in what would very soon become 13 […]

History

10 Things You Should Know About the American Founding

July 3, 2014 Bradley J. Birzer 1

In 1776, numerous individuals, families, committees, congregations, localities, and states had already proclaimed their independence, and almost no remaining imperial structure could continue to operate with any legitimacy in what would very soon become 13 […]

Film & Music

The Music of Glass Hammer: An Appreciation

March 9, 2014 Bradley J. Birzer 0

A scratchy LP, probably on a phonograph player from the 1930s or so, begins playing and a man clears his throat. Horns and woodwinds slowly swell and unveil, coming into tune in the background, finding […]

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