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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.
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From the University Bookman
Worse Than They Knew
Dan Whitehead argues that John Courtney Murray fails to identify the arbiters of the public consensus.
Latest Pieces
Innovation Through Constraint
Matthew Stewart reviews Scott Newstok’s How to Think Like Shakespeare.
Properly Dangerous Ideas
Chris Butynskyi reviews Chuck Klosterman’s collection Raised in Captivity.
Bradbury in the Afternoon
James E. Person Jr. reviews the final volume of Jonathan Eller’s biography of Ray Bradbury.
Niebuhr on the Crisis of Our Civilization
Francis P. Sempa finds that Reinhold Niebuhr has guidance for our political-spiritual crisis.
A Syrian Islamist Reads Arabic Literature for the First Time
Sam Sweeney reads Kahlil Gibran along with a recently captured Syrian Islamist.
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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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.