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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
When Left and Right Agree
Gerard T. Mundy reviews a book from the center-left that buttresses conservative concerns with communities, social order, and the American economy.
Latest Pieces
Prin’s Original Fictions
Joshua Hren reviews an Odyssean satirical novel.
Musket Before the Ax: Howells and Ohio
Jacob A. Bruggeman reviews a new edition of an 1897 history of Ohio from “the dean of American literature.”
Passing through the Gathering Dusk
James E. Person Jr. reflects on the centennial of Sherwood Anderson’s evocative novel, Winesburg, Ohio.
Christ in the Outback
Karl Schmude reviews an Austrialian journalist’s book on Christianity in public life and its lessons for Christians in becoming a self-confident minority.
Leviathan at Bay, at Last?
Stephen B. Presser welcomes a book with guidance on rolling back the Administrative State.
About the Bookman
For over five 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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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.