Richard M. Weaver was one of the founders of modern conservatism and an enduring intellectual figure of twentieth-century America. He was dedicated to examining the dual nature of human beings…

Weaver’s Ethics of Rhetoric,
originally published in 1953, has been called his most important statement on the ethical and cultural role of rhetoric. A strong advocate of cultural conservatism, Weaver…

Originally published in 1948, at the height of post-World War II optimism and confidence in collective security, this title uses words hard as cannonballs to present an unsparing diagnosis of…