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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
The Revolution is Still Permanent
Micah Meadowcroft reviews a book that argues implicitly that politics and religion can never truly be separated.
Recent Bookman Posts
John Lukacs: Reactionary, Not Conservative
John P. McCarthy remembers his friend John Lukacs.
John Milton, Latin Love Poet
Patrick Callahan welcomes A. M. Juster’s new translation of Milton’s Book of Elegies.
Finding Wisdom at Dusk
Scott Beauchamp reviews Roberto Calasso’s diagnosis of the hidden split between power and meaning in our technocratic age.
Americans’ Dignity, and the Nation’s Shame
Addison Del Mastro reviews an important book that may help elites better imagine the lives of those other Americans.
Fragments of Shattered Empire
Kevin J. McNamara reviews a memoir from a journalist who helps brings back to life the shattered kingdoms of Central Europe.
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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At the Kirk Center
Events
The American Cause: registration is now open for this one day seminar at the Kirk Center in Mecosta. Dan McCarthy and Dr. Jeffrey Polet will lead us through discussions based on Russell Kirk’s books, The American Cause and The Roots of American Order.
Discover Center Programs
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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.