How Judges Think by Richard A. Posner (Harvard University Press, 2008), 387 pp, $29.95The debate over judicial nominees follows a well-worn script. Conservatives lament “activist” judges and advocate for “strict construction” of the Constitution. They are especially...
The Kirk Center is co-sponsoring a conference on T. S. Eliot on August 14–16, 2008 in conjunction with the new edition of Dr. Kirk’s book, Eliot and His Age. See the conference page for details. A full schedule is now available.
October 2009 Edward Ericson with Annette Kirk and McConnell Center director Gary Gregg at a reception at Piety Hill. A 2008 Seminar at Piety Hill Annette Kirk with an actor playing John Adamsand carrying a copy of Russell Kirk’s The Roots of American...
We were pleased to note Chuck Colson referencing Russell Kirk so warmly, and correctly noting Dr. Kirk’s rejection of ideology, in a commentary from June 6, 2008 titled “True Conservatism.”
The radical materialist culture of the last two hundred years, equally common to both the Communist East and the capitalist West, has brought in its wake a high degree of material and technological advancement, with many obvious benefits for mankind. - William Scott on Aleksandr