Based on 30 years of his award-winning teaching of writing, Dr. Gregory Roper shows how you can use the nearly-forgotten ancient technique of Stasis Theory to build better, cleaner, more persuasive prose.

The Inklings were, to be sure, the most important literary group of the twentieth-century, rivaling and surpassing the much touted Bloomsbury Group. This book focuses on the Inklings from Tolkien’s point of view.  As with Lewis, Barfield, Charles Williams, and Lord David Cecil, Tolkien wanted the group to serve as a bardic defense of Western civilization, Socrates through Dante. Birzer explores, as they did, how Tolkien’s approach to myth and legend might reawaken the West to what it could be and to what it once aspired.

His life was soaked in sex, secret agents, suicide, and even a dose of Satanism. Then he became the unlikely idea man for the American Right. This book rewrites the history of the conservative movement through these Lost Papers of the American Right that expose the rivalries, jealousies, friendships, and fights among the makers of the movement.

The American story is one of great physical, intellectual, and spiritual adventure. Gems of American History explores how this extraordinary republic came to be—and what is required to preserve its legacy of liberty.