Welcome Home to the Russell Kirk Center
Strengthening America’s Tradition of Order, Justice & Freedom
The Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal aims to recover, conserve, and enliven those enduring norms and principles that Russell Kirk (1918–1994) called the Permanent Things. Explore the Center’s programs, publications, and fellowships and join with us to continue Kirk’s work to renew our culture and redeem our time.
Adapting Conservatism for the Current Generation
An Evening Conversation with a Panel of Emerging Conservative Thinkers
December 5, 2023 in Washington, DC
At the Kirk Center
Highlights
Harvard’s John Adams Society studies political philosophy at the Kirk Center.
Public Policy Fellows of the Fund For American Studies visit the Kirk Center.
Seminar participants’ reactions to the “Writing and the Moral Imagination Workshop” and the 2023 interns intellectual retreat.
Classic Kirk: “What Did Americans Inherit from the Ancients?”
Events
December 5, 6 pm | Adapting Conservatism for the Current Generation
On the 70th anniversary of The Conservative Mind, join the Kirk Center to hear from a panel of rising conservative leaders during this special evening event.
The Mayflower Hotel’s Grand Ballroom, Washington, D.C.
Register here.
On Campus
Explore Kirk On Campus
Russell Kirk understood his work was to convey to America’s rising generations an understanding of the process by which a healthy culture is transmitted from age to age.
We’re continuing this important work through Kirk on Campus as we host conversations about the permanent things on campuses across Michigan. We hope you’ll join us at an event, and help us prepare tomorrow’s leaders with an appreciation of the richness of the conservative intellectual tradition.
From the University Bookman
The Graces of Death and Nature
“Three of America’s most famous writers and intellectuals, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and William James, came to believe that death was a beginning, a moment of renewal and regeneration, not the finality of dissolution.”
Latest Pieces
Right Populism
“[Kendall] thus seems likely to remain a challenging figure within the conservative intellectual tradition, but the challenges he offers his readers should make a study of his thought a more profitable exercise, not less.”
Squeezing Out Virtue and Beauty
“…the presence of CTLs raise a fundamental question about teaching and learning themselves: can teaching and learning be reduced to a single methodology or are they by nature resistant to it?”
Russell Kirk’s Book of Love
“Kirk’s conservatism was the conservatism of loss—not of rout or retreat, and certainly not despair, but a conservatism that treasures what is gone as well as what we have. Our civilization of love, the age of chivalry, is dead. Yet the dead are with us still.”
Conservatives’ Cornerstone
“A populist, anti-ideological Kirkian conservatism of the heart remains Americans’ best hope for national renewal, and the Right’s only real path back to national leadership.”
Russell Kirk and The Conservative Mind
“With eloquence and conviction Kirk demonstrated that reflective conservatism is neither a smokescreen for selfishness nor the ritual incantation of the privileged. It is an attitude toward life with moral substance of its own.”
About the Bookman
For six decades, the University Bookman, founded by Russell Kirk, has identified and discussed those books that diagnose the modern age and support the renewal of culture and the common good. Currently published online, the Bookman continues its mission of examining our times in light of the Permanent Things that make us human.
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