ANAMNESIS
A Journal for the Study of Tradition, Place, and ‘Things Divine’

“But that wisdom which I have stated to be the chief, is the knowledge of things divine and human, which comprehends the fellowship of gods and men, and their society within themselves.”—Marcus Tullius Cicero
Online Essays
Reality’s Defender
The Southern Philosopher: Collected Essays of John William Corrington. Edited by Allen Mendenhall University of North Georgia Press, 2017. 362 pp. John William “Bill” Corrington lived an extraordinary life in which he mastered most of...
Sovereignty, Pluralism, and the Destruction of the Rule of Law
Law, Liberty and State: Oakeshott, Hayek and Schmitt on the Rule of Law. David Dyzenhaus and Thomas Poole, eds. Cambridge University Press, 2015. 350 pp. It is rare that a work of academic political theory is timely, especially one...
Prophet of Anti-Modernism: W. H. Riehl and Authentic Community
As claims of social progress resulting from free market capitalism come under renewed scrutiny in the twenty-first century, the search for prophets and a useable past has begun. In this search, the nineteenth century German social critic...
Cliff Dancing with Whittaker Chambers
Conservative or right-leaning intellectuals and writers have a tendency to want to identify the original heretic—the person who first had the terrible idea that started everything going so very wrong. For Richard Weaver, the culprit was...