Annette Kirk Remembers Valerie Eliot

by | Nov 25, 2012

Kirk Center President Annette Kirk has written a brief remembrance of Valerie Eliot, their meetings, and the literary friendship of their late husbands.

Mrs. Kirk on Valerie Eliot (1926–2012)

by | Nov 25, 2012

When a handsome, statuesque Valerie Eliot entered the restaurant at which we met in June 1999, the pianist broke into selections from the musical Cats, much to the delight of my two daughters who a decade earlier had attended that musical in London with Russell and...

A Candle in the Darkness

by | Nov 18, 2012

Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts by Antonin Scalia and Bryan A. Garner. Thomson/West (St. Paul), 2012608 pp., $49.95, cloth.These are dark days for American law. In June, Chief Justice John Roberts, in what was a stark betrayal of his oath to uphold the...

The Character of Our Constitution

by | Nov 18, 2012

Rights and Duties: Reflections on Our Conservative Constitution by Russell Kirk. Spence Publishing Company, 1997, 208 pp., $28 cloth.The present book includes all of Kirk’s earlier work, The Conservative Constitution (too long unavailable), and adds to it a number of...

Fall Newsletter

by | Nov 16, 2012

We are pleased to release the Fall 2012 Permanent Things, the latest number of the Russell Kirk Center newsletter, featuring updates on recent events and seminars at the Center.