Summary: <p>Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by historian Christopher H. Owen to discuss his new book, <em>Heaven Can Indeed Fall: The Life of Willmoore Kendall</em>. They chat about Kendall’s brilliance as a teacher and writer, his importance to William F. Buckley, Jr., <em>National Review</em>, the nascent conservative movement of the 1950’s as a whole, and what lessons we can learn from Kendall’s political philosophy and works.</p> <p><strong>Get the book here:</strong> <a href="https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781793624444/Heaven-Can-Indeed-Fall-The-Life-of-Willmoore-Kendall">https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781793624444/Heaven-Can-Indeed-Fall-The-Life-of-Willmoore-Kendall</a></p> <p><strong>Show Notes:</strong></p> <p><em>The American Conservative</em>: Emile Doak – “The Right’s Philandering Sooner”<br> <a href="https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-rights-philandering-sooner/">https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-rights-philandering-sooner/</a></p> <p><em>The Imaginative Conservative</em>: Donald Devine – “The Brilliant Enigma That Was Willmoore Kendall”<br> <a href="https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2021/12/heaven-can-indeed-fall-willmoore-kendall-christopher-h-owen-donald-devine.html">https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2021/12/heaven-can-indeed-fall-willmoore-kendall-christopher-h-owen-donald-devine.html</a></p> <p><em>The Imaginative Conservative</em>: Tom Pauken – “A Willmoore Kendall Moment”<br> <a href="https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2022/01/willmoore-kendall-moment-tom-pauken.html">https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2022/01/willmoore-kendall-moment-tom-pauken.html</a><br> <br> <em>The National Interest</em>: Jacob Heilbrunn – “How Willmoore Kendall Invented Trumpism”<br> <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/feature/how-willmoore-kendall-invented-trumpism-198739">https://nationalinterest.org/feature/how-willmoore-kendall-invented-trumpism-198739</a></p> <p><em>National Review</em>: Matthew Continetti – “Willmoore Kendall and the Intellectual Roots of the Populist Right”<br> <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2021/11/15/willmoore-kendall-and-the-intellectual-roots-of-the-populist-right/">https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2021/11/15/willmoore-kendall-and-the-intellectual-roots-of-the-populist-right/</a></p>
