The Teaching Company: The Conservative Tradition by Professor Allitt
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For years, we’ve enjoyed the lecture courses prepared by the Teaching Company on the Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition as well as Greenberg’s Music Appreciation lectures.
Now, Professor Patrick N. Allitt of Emery University has prepared for the Teaching Company a series of 36 lectures collectively-entitled The Conservative Tradition. We’re skeptical of intellectual histories because we’ve found they are often aimed at making some kind of partisan point about the present, but understanding the origins of modern conservatism and how it has changed over the years can be fascinating and instructive. Russel Kirk’s classic The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot
and Brian Doherty’sRadicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement
As a general rule, we don’t like to recommend rebellion resources that we haven’t first reviewed or resources that are costly. This project is so ambitious and has such great potential, however, we made an exception. We have not yet reviewed The Conservative Tradition, but we offer Professor Allitt’s free article / book excerpt for NRO, The Conservative Founders, as a representative sample of his written work, if not his lecture style. In terms of the cost, the Teaching Company has the lecture series on sale at a drastically discounted price. All 36 lectures are available on DVD for $99.95, on CD for $69.95, or as downloadable MP3 files (for listening on your PC or transferring to an portable music player) for $49.95.
