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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
Robert Lowell’s Selfish Determination
Eugene Schlanger reviews Robert Lowell’s Dolphin and Dolphin Letters.
Latest Pieces
After Such Knowledge
Carl E. Rollyson reviews Jerome Charyn’s biographical novel Sargeant Salinger.
Everything Stays the Same
Albert Wald reviews Alex Christofi’s Dostoevsky in Love: An Intimate Life.
The Literature of Wisdom and Enjoyment
Daniel Buck reviews Karen Swallow Prior’s On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books.
James Burnham: Marxist, 1933–1940
Francis P. Sempa looks at James Burnham’s Marxist period for themes that shaped The Managerial Revolution and The Machiavellians.
The Heart of Progress
Luma Simms reviews Matthew Slaboch’s Road to Nowhere.
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.