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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.
From the University Bookman
Originalism and the Individual Jurist
Kansas Supreme Court Justice Caleb Stegall draws on T. S. Eliot as he reflects on what makes a good jurist in this recent keynote address.
Recent Bookman Posts
The Habit of Being a Catholic Writer
Emina Melonic welcomes a new volume of letters between Flannery O’Connor and Caroline Gordon.
All the History That Fits a Narrative
Francis P. Sempa reviews an overly self-important book about the Helsinki Accords.
A District in Play
Derek Turner welcomes Dan Cruickshank’s architectural history of London’s Spitalfields, the “off-center epitome of England.”
The Doctor as Moralist
Scott Beauchamp reviews a collection of the short stories of psychiatrist and critic Theodore Dalrymple.
The Doctor as Amoralist
Karl C. Schaffenburg reviews an informative but unreflective history of surgical advances.
About the Bookman
For over five decades, the University Bookman, founded by Russell Kirk, has sought to redeem the time by identifying and discussing those books that diagnose the modern age and support the renewal of culture and the common good. Currently published only online, the Bookman continues its mission of examining our times through the prism of what Kirk called the Permanent Things.
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Russell Kirk Romania Launches Essay Contest on Dr. Kirk’s Books
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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.