Our Neighbors and the Ground Beneath Us

We are very pleased to present you with this issue of the University Bookman. As befitting a quarterly devoted to serious books, the reviews cover numerous subjects with, we believe, learning and clear writing in explication of the major issues of our age. Continuing...

History and the Moral Imagination

Historical Consciousness: The Remembered Past by John Lukacs Reprinted by Transaction Publishers (Library of Conservative Thought), 1994. Review reprinted from The Sewanee Review, Spring 1969, Volume LXXVII, Number 2. Applying a philosophical intellect to the study of...

Kirk on Imagination

Mere unthinking negative opposition to the current of events, clutching in despair at what we still retain, will not suffice in this age. A conservatism of instinct must be reinforced by a conservatism of thought and imagination.
Writings of Russell Kirk

Writings of Russell Kirk

Below is a partial list of the books of Russell Kirk (memoirs, nonfiction, and fiction), as well as various books about him. Items marked with a bullet are still in print or readily available; for the others, we suggest you try a used book service such as abebooks.com...

Others on Russell Kirk

Items on the Internet Lee Edwards wrote a piece on Kirk for Modern Age: “The Mind Behind ‘The Conservative Mind’” (Vol. 59, No. 4, Fall 2017). Jeffrey Dennis Pearce gave a talk on Virtue in Two Ghostly Tales of Russell Kirk in Mecosta in April of 2017. Mike Pence:...