Description
20 years after the publication of Vital Remnants: America’s Founding and the Western Tradition, a book that set out to help America remember her vital roots in the western tradition, Dr. Gary L. Gregg II takes up the title of Vital Remnants once more to continue the mission of serving the future by remembering, thinking about, and learning from the great thinkers of the past. Join Dr. Gregg as he guides listeners through some of the most important texts in human history. Whether you are looking for help in reaching a long abandoned reading goal and continuing your life-long learning, or looking for leadership and life lessons from something deeper than the latest self-help book, Gregg brings a quarter of a century's worth of experience teaching leadership to help you along the way. Vital Remnants from our shared past await to inspire, encourage, and teach us today just as they changed the world we have inherited.
Companion Reading Guides
- Download Dr. Gregg's Guide to The Prince
- Download Dr. Gregg's Guide to The Republic
Subscribe
- Subscribe to our newsletter and receive McConnell Center updates directly in your mailbox
- Please subscribe to, like, comment, and share Vital Remnants on the following platforms:
Mar 1, 2022
McConnell Center Director Dr. Gary Gregg and Dr. Susan Hanssen, Associate Professor of History and Chair of the History Department at the University of Dallas, explore the roots of church and state in American order. The two discuss the history of 17th century Britain and the English Civil War, Hobbesian and Lockean political theory, and more.
Corresponding Reading
Chapter 8, pp. 259-300 of Russell Kirk, The Roots of American Order
Important Links
- Download the corresponding reading guide to The Roots of American Order here
- Learn more about The Roots of American Order at https://louisville.edu/mcconnellcenter/programs-events/bic
- Martin J. Wiener, English Culture and the Decline of the Industrial Spirit, 1850-1980
- Russell Kirk, America's British Culture
- David Hackett Fischer, Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America
- Subscribe to our newsletter and receive McConnell Center updates directly in your mailbox
Please share any thoughts, questions, comments, or concerns with us via email at connor.tracy@louisville.edu.
This podcast is a production of the McConnell Center at the University of Louisville. For more information, including upcoming events, please visit us online at mcconnellcenter.org or on social media at:
- Facebook: @mcconnellcenter
- Instagram: @ulmcenter
- Twitter: @ULmCenter
Contributors
- Host: Dr. Gary L. Gregg II, McConnell Center Director
- Guest: Dr. Suan Hanssen, University of Dallas
- Producers and Editors: Connor Tracy, McConnell Center SBS Coordinator & Will Randolph, McConnell Scholar