#regnery

[prayersfromlilacveins]

Trash is available in abundance and the market for it seems insatiable, but with the millions of supposedly literate people turned out every year by our colossal educational establishment, the market for a classic book on one of the most basic issues facing our society is too small to keep it in print.

Memoirs of a Dissident Publisher, Henry Regnery

[prayersfromlilacveins]

As I have mentioned, the Henry Regnery Company was originally organized as a nonprofit corporation, not because I had any ideological objection to profits, but because, as it seemed to me then and does still, in matters of excellence the market is a poor judge.

Memoirs of a Dissident Publisher, Henry Regnery

[prayersfromlilacveins]

Schumpeter was no narrow, academic economist, but a thoroughly educated, cultivated man, who viewed the world with a certain amused detachment, but who saw it as a whole, and the limited place of economic considerations within it. Whether he thought of himself as a conservative I have no idea, but he had the quality, which I think is an essential element of the true conservative, of being able to view the present in the long perspective of history, of seeing the present not as the end product or purpose of history, which I think is a typically liberal fallacy, but as a link connecting a long past with a limitless future. One day in class there was some discussion of the relative productivity, and therefore desirability, of various economic systems, whether capitalism is more or less productive than socialism, and so on, to which Schumpeter remarked, 'It all depends on what you want. If I had the choice, I would take the society that produced the cathedral at Chartres.'

Memoirs of a Dissident Publisher, Henry Regnery

[prayersfromlilacveins]

Picard felt strongly that one of the things lacking in modern life is the true encounter—people see and talk to each other but do not really encounter one another; the one gives nothing of himself to the other. To have met Max Picard was an encounter, and to meet him in his work is just as much so. He gave generously of himself; his heart is in his work, and if his reader meets him only part way, he will take with him something that will make him a more nearly complete and a better person.

[nprbooks]

Image: Newt Gingrich published his book with the conservative publishing house Regnery. (David Goldman/AP)

There's a role reversal underway in political publishing. For years, conservative publishers have thrived as their readers flocked to buy books aimed directly at taking down the party in power. Now, with Republicans in control, they have to rethink their strategy. Meanwhile, left-leaning publishers are hoping to take advantage of the new political landscape.

Trump's Win Changed The Game For Publishers On The Left And The Right

[teenpelagius]

Written by a priest and published in 1954 by the famed conservative house Regnery, which just beginning to emerge from its postwar line of books critical of the Allied occupation of Germany. You have to admit, "Poltergeists before the Law Courts" is intriguing.