Not unlike a prime Bordeaux, this collection of essays, originally published in hardcover in June 2012, has suffered not at all from the passage of time. Betraying none of the customary unevenness of assembled writings, the twenty-one pieces composing The Fortunes of Permanence cover a range of topics—from the ACLU to Stefan Zweig—in literature, art, political theory, social history, theology, ethics, and science. Receiving more than a passing mention are John Buchan, G. K. Chesterton, the Marquis de Condorcet, T. S. Eliot, Friedrich Engels, F. A. Hayek, Samuel Huntington, Rudyard Kipling, Leszek Kolakowski, V. I. Lenin, Thomas Malthus, Karl Marx, Malcolm Muggeridge, Joshua Muravchik, Martha Nussbaum, George Orwell, Andrew Roberts, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, David Stove, E. P. Thompson, Alexis de Tocqueville, and Richard M. Weaver.
