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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
Appropriating the Goods of Reactionary Conservatism
Casey Chalk reviews Michael Warren Davis’s The Reactionary Mind.
Latest Pieces
A. J. P. Taylor’s History of England
John Rossi looks back at the enduring character of A. J. P. Taylor’s English History
Forgetting the Fifth Horseman
Robert Grant Price looks back at Jane Jacobs’s Dark Age Ahead. According to Jacobs, to vanquish darkness a civilization must constantly reinforce the pillars that support it.
The Authority of Reason
“The odds against reason are long,” Marks admits, but the stakes are high and the goal is worthy.
Toward a Moral Vision of Women’s Rights
Nicole M. King reviews Erika Bachiochi’s The Rights of Women.
Is There a Linear Path to America’s Next Civil War?
Anthony Barr reviews The Age of Entitlement by Christopher Caldwell.
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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At the Kirk Center
Highlights & News
See the current issue of the Political Science Reviewer for a symposium on “Russell Kirk in the 21st Century.”
Classic Kirk featured essay:
Lost Souls: A Meditation
Events
Attention High School Teachers:
You are invited to attend a virtual session introducing the “Pillars of American Order” conference to be held in July of 2022.
December 9, 4 – 5 p.m. Sign up 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.