Professor Kozlowski Lectures1 Sep 2025

Conservatism

Professor Kozlowski invites the wrath of the Internet by proposing to discuss Conservatism. To do that, we'll explore the history of conservative thinking (and American Conservatism in particular) from Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France and Romanticism (including Nietzsche's perspective in On the Genealogy of Morals), to the 20th and 21st centuries. We'll touch on major developments throughout history, including the New Deal, the Cold War, the Civil Rights movement, the Christian Evangelical Right, and Neoconservatism (including Irving Kristol's "The Neoconservative Persuasion), all the way up to the MAGA movement and Project 2025. It's a massive lecture for a massive topic, but how else were we going to introduce the 20th century?

Besides the required readings linked above, the 20th century lectures will include many more additional readings. For our Conservatism discussion, they include:

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Episoder(302)

HBM - Paradise Lost 5-8

Today we wrestle with the whole of Raphael's digressions from the central plot of Paradise Lost - the war of the angels in heaven, Milton's recapitulation of Genesis 1 and 2, and some interesting side...

25 Aug 1h 59min

HBM - Paradise Lost 3-5

Now that our discussion is officially behind our reading, let's take the opportunity to run through some of the main ideas in Books 3-5 of Paradise Lost, including Milton's (perhaps inconsistent) emph...

25 Aug 1h 57min

HBM - Renaissance Magic and Milton's War

Today we set out many of the topics we'll need to know in our ongoing study of British Magick - including the varieties of Magical practices common among Renaissance thinkers, some of the ideas of esp...

22 Aug 2h

HBM - Paradise Lost 1-2

Today we discuss the opening chapters of Milton's Paradise Lost, to ask ourselves: why do we find Satan so compelling in this poem? We'll discuss the reasons why Satan seems persuasive, as well as Mil...

20 Aug 1h 42min

HBM - Apocrypha and Pseudepigraphica

Today we get as close as we're going to get to reading actual magical grimoires and practical magic instruction - we're looking at three famous texts with differing relationships to the Judeo-Christia...

19 Aug 1h 49min

HBM - The Story of the New Testament (Canon)

Today we discuss how the New Testament came to be: first, by looking at the historical evidences surrounding Jesus of Nazareth, then by examining the complicated and confusing world of writers and wri...

18 Aug 1h 46min

HBM - Magic and the Old Testament

Today we talk about the Old Testament's complicated relationship to magic. We'll discuss passages that seem to acknowledge the existence of magical or spiritual forces, familiar texts that are fertile...

18 Aug 1h 51min

HBM - Virgil, Rome, and Translation

Today we discuss the text, context, and legacy of Virgil's Aeneid. We'll talk about its role as the preeminent poem of Western literature, its value as propaganda to Augustus Caesar, and the myths and...

17 Aug 1h 41min