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Bradley J. Birzer

@bradleybirzer

7 months

I'm Roman Catholic, and my PHD wife and four daughters might be slightly shocked that I hold them in contempt!

Penrod Jashper

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7 months

@bradleybirzer @UncleFlapjacks @BrionMcClanahan You work at Hillsdale College. Hatred for all but white evangelicals is the air you breathe. Contempt for women is your daily bread.

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Bradley J. Birzer

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The revised and expanded Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien affirm one major thing: Tolkien was even more Catholic than any of us expected him to be. And, many of us already thought he was really, really Catholic.

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Look what UPS just delivered. I’m feeling both old and proud. 20 years after the first edition.

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Let me brag a bit. My fifteen-year old son, John Augustine, won the Edward Everett Oratory contest at the Hillsdale Academy today. He was brilliant!

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I'm so tired of progressives calling conservatives fascists. Please look back to the Italians of the 1910s and 1920s, the founders of fascism. They clearly identified fascism with progressivism and futurism, radically dismissing the past and especially the Catholic Church.

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1 year

I finished Moby Dick. What a totally weird, wonderful, wild ride.

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Bradley J. Birzer

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5 months

This is arguably the worst and most ignorant thing you'll read today. St. Augustine's CITY OF GOD makes nearly 80 references to Virgil.

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@gavinortlund None. No work of fiction should ever change our worldview. As a Christian, my worldview is shaped by Scripture alone.

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1 year

The new version (Regnery) of J.R.R. Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth comes out this fall. 21 years after it originally appeared from ISI Books.

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Bradley J. Birzer

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I'm extremely happy (and proud) to note that I am now, officially, a Senior Fellow of the @KirkCenter . A huge thanks to Jeff Nelson and Annette Kirk for having such faith in me. Ave, Russell Kirk! @ActonInstitute @DanHugger @ISI @TheRightsWriter @NRO @Doctorkilt

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Bradley J. Birzer

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Forgive me, but I have to say this as well. Corey Comperatore died as an absolute hero. He wasn't escorted to heaven by any mere angels, he was escorted by the Valkyrie or the Valar. Spoiler: every one of us is going to die. Not every one of us is going to die saving our spouse,

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8 months

Age 56, still trying to look artsy. Holding a copy of THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES.

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9 months

I'm pretty convinced that the Complete Works of Calvin and Hobbes are essential to an understanding of western civilization.

The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

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4 months

Why, oh, why, did Trump have to state "Catholics and Christians" in his response to Biden. As if Catholics and Christians are somehow separable???

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Bradley J. Birzer

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6 months

In theory, I was a hard-core free trade/free immigration/libertarian guy. Not so taken with such things now. I think we need to secure the southern border. . . ASAP.

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Bradley J. Birzer

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5 months

Sorry to be political, but after last night, I think President Biden is not just ignorant, but blatantly evil.

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Bradley J. Birzer

@bradleybirzer

1 year

At a private meeting with President Gorbachev, Ray Bradbury asked him what he thought of Ronald Reagan. "Your greatest president," Gorbachev responded. "None of your other presidents ever said, "Tear down the Wall.'"

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4 months

On this Eve of Transgender Visibility Day, 387, St. Augustine became a Christian!

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Bradley J. Birzer

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5 months

From a private conversation. . . the "anti-war" Left is a myth. It existed only during the Vietnam era. Otherwise, the American left has favored war since World War I. Almost a full century of being pro-war (again, with the exception of the late 1960s and early 1970s).

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My oldest, Nathaniel, who lives in Jerusalem, spent the Iranian bombardment last night in the house chapel, reading St. Paul's first letter to the Corinthians in Greek.

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6 months

Twenty-six years ago tonight, I posted 95 reasons why Dedra should marry me on the cathedral door in Helena, Montana. She said yes.

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@AmSolidarity just carefully read your platform. Thoughtful and humane. And, certainly better than Biden and Trump. Thank you.

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4 months

Father Michael Ward on The Horse and His Boy.

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A blessed and happy Easter to all my Twitter friends! He is risen! Christ is King!

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Bradley J. Birzer

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My two youngest and me. Badlands, SD.

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Bradley J. Birzer

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5 months

Your monthly reminder that I can't believe out of 330plus million people, it's come down to these two again. . .

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Bradley J. Birzer

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4 months

Of course Christ is King. I don't get the controversy. As a Christian, how could I think anything else???

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Bradley J. Birzer

@bradleybirzer

11 months

Today is the official release date of Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth, Version 2! Same book, new intro.

J.R.R. Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle Earth

www.amazon.com

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Bradley J. Birzer

@bradleybirzer

5 months

Just finished reading BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES. What a brilliant and brutal novel.

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Bradley J. Birzer

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4 months

Tocqueville, then Kirk, then Weaver.

Intercollegiate Studies Institute

@ISI

4 months

Which book would you read first?

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So many critics (many of them simply mocking) asking why God would save Trump, when he would allow a fireman and devout father to die. Honestly, aren't these deeply theological questions. Why not Isaac? Why Jesus? I've asked this a million times in my own life--why my

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Bradley J. Birzer

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1 year

Woke up yesterday with a complete corena rupture in my left eye! Crazy, especially given that I only have sight in one eye (I'm blind in my right eye, due to a childhood accident--yeah, I'm that kid your mother warned you about!). My sight is nearly restored this afternoon!

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Today is the fiftieth anniversary of Professor J.R.R. Tolkien's death. Celebrate his amazing life at The Imaginative Conservative.

Tolkien and Theology ~ The Imaginative Conservative

While Tolkien never approached theology in a systematic or even quasi-systematic way, his statements on the subject—littered throughout his collected letters—read as a Catholic version of Heraclitus’...

theimaginativeconservative.org

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Bradley J. Birzer

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1 year

When it comes to war, there's a VERY slippery slope. Biden's F16 move is absolute insanity. I beg my twitter friends to take this seriously. The U.S. Constitution says that only Congress can declare war. Meaning, the only body represented by the people can declare war.

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Bradley J. Birzer

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4 months

I'm not a Trump guy. Never have been. But, I see absolutely NOTHING appealing about Biden. What a frustrating year. Yeah, I know--some of you will say, "get over it." But, I'm more with George Washington on this--political parties are just plain evil.

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Bradley J. Birzer

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1 year

Today's view.

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Bradley J. Birzer

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12 days

For what it's worth, I apologize to the entire twitter/x world for being a self-righteous prig about Senator Vance yesterday. I'm better now.

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Bradley J. Birzer

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3 months

"When men have repudiated the divine element in social institutions, then indeed power is everything."--Russell Kirk, 1954

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Bradley J. Birzer

@bradleybirzer

5 months

This coming fall, I will have been at Hillsdale for 25 years. I have taught elsewhere, too, and HC is, by far, the freest and most tolerant place I've ever worked. And, it has an amazing mission, amazing faculty, and amazing students. Yes, amazing is the proper word.

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Bradley J. Birzer

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9 months

Our front driveway, today:

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Bradley J. Birzer

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5 months

Yes, our rights as human beings do come from God, and, no, I'm, in no way, a nationalist.

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Bradley J. Birzer

@bradleybirzer

5 months

I am so deeply honored to have read this excellent book in manuscript form. Can’t wait to hold the actual book in my hands. A huge congratulations to my great friend and colleague, @IVMiles .

Miles Smith IV

@IVMiles

5 months

Some personal news! Im so grateful to @DavenantInst Press and @RDLaverty and his team for this gorgeous cover, and to @RevKevDeYoung for his excellent forward. I hope this book will offer a useful history for laypeople, pastors, and scholars.

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Bradley J. Birzer

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So proud of ⁦ @IVMiles ⁩ He was brilliant.

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Bradley J. Birzer

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9 months

The Birzers carve some pumpkins. Happy halloween!!!

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Bradley J. Birzer

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6 months

We are a republic. We're not a democracy. Yes, I would die on this hill.

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Bradley J. Birzer

@bradleybirzer

8 months

We had seven kids. What more do you want?

Tim Carney

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8 months

It takes a village to raise a child. Millennials and Gen. Z find parenting too daunting, which is why the birthrate is plummeting. The problem is our family unfriendly culture. We lack a fertile ecosystem for raising kids. So I wrote a book about it.

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Bradley J. Birzer

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FYI, the Soviets murdered 62 million of their own folks; China murdered 65 million of their own folks; and Cambodia murdered one out of every two Cambodians, 1975-1978. Just a little Communist history. The NAZIs were utterly evil, but the Communists were utterly, utterly evil.

Rev. Ben Johnson

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“Thirty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, liberals like those behind The Incomparable Mr. Buckley persist in treating Communism as a footnote to McCarthyism.”

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Bradley J. Birzer

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1 year

Tomorrow, my daughter, Cecilia Rose, would've been sixteen. Here's my tribute from a few years ago.

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Bradley J. Birzer

@bradleybirzer

1 year

A clipping I kept from 1991:

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Bradley J. Birzer

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4 months

I'm not sure I care how this has been corrupted and abused, Jesus Christ is King.

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Bradley J. Birzer

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When I first heard A-Ha's "Take on Me" back in 1984, I never imagined that forty years later, my twelve-year old daughter would be playing it on the piano!

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Bradley J. Birzer

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I will admit that I consider @PatrickDeneen one of my closest friends--so, feel free to note the bias--but I'm really tired of the critiques of the great man. Disagree with him all you want, but don't label him as anything less than genius. He is, to be sure, genius.

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Bradley J. Birzer

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I must admit, I was taught to look at the soul (not the accidents) of the human person. Character, not skin color, mattered most.

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Bradley J. Birzer

@bradleybirzer

6 months

If you tell me your pronouns, I will automatically think you're the most superficial human who ever existed. Dear God, just be yourself.

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Bradley J. Birzer

@bradleybirzer

1 year

As of this moment, there are over 335 million Americans. Imagine believing that the two best candidates for the presidency are Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Seriously, just imagine that for a moment. . .

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Bradley J. Birzer

@bradleybirzer

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A decade ago, I wrote a manuscript for a small Catholic press called BESIEGED. The press rejected it by calling for so many edits as to make the manuscript unrecognizable. Such is life. I'll now be publishing the book in serialized form through The Imaginative Conservative.

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1 year

Several Birzers, atop Mount Hoosier, Continental Divide.

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Bradley J. Birzer

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“The aim of education is not to make every man like every other, but to awaken the highest talents of the best persons among us.”—Russell Kirk

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