The Moral Imagination in Literature and the Arts
The Moral Imagination in Literature and the Arts Class Time:Dates:Credits: Faculty: DescriptionFirst used in Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France, the term “moral imagination” is an essential concept in modern conservative thought. This phrase, which...
Seminar at Piety Hill for Certificate Students
Seminar at Piety Hill for Certificate Students Class Time: Dates: Faculty: DescriptionFor more than fifty years, thousands of students and dozens of distinguished lecturers have participated in Seminars at Piety Hill, the ancestral home of Russell Kirk. Importantly,...
Reforming Education Begins (and ends) with the Virtues
Teaching the Virtues By David Hein. Mecosta House, 2025. Paperback, 222 pages, $16.95. Reviewed by Thomas Griffin. Aristotle famously began his Metaphysics with a foundational principle: “All men by nature desire to know.” This leads to two further questions: What...
Irretrievable Eden
Outside The Gates of Eden By David Middleton. Measure Press, 2023. Hardcover, 114 pages, $25. Reviewed by Madeleine Austin. David Middleton’s Outside the Gates of Eden is a collection of formal poems rooted in contemplation of the Book of Genesis. What does it mean to...
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What the American Revolution Secured: Order, Justice, and Freedom
A "revolution not made, but prevented.” Russell Kirk fondly and frequently quoted E. J. Payne’s pithy summary of Burke’s view of the Glorious Revolution.
"So yes, Lord Alfred, perhaps you are right after all. ’Tis not too late to seek a newer world! Perhaps one last Ulyssean adventure remains beyond the sunset, and perhaps some work of noble note may yet be done."