The Russell Kirk Center Welcomes TFAS Public Policy Fellows

The Russell Kirk Center Welcomes TFAS Public Policy Fellows

The Russell Kirk Center Welcomes TFAS Public Policy Fellows From October 16–18, the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal welcomed twenty Public Policy Fellows from The Fund for American Studies (TFAS) for a weekend seminar on “The Roots of American Order as the...
The Russell Kirk Center Welcomes TFAS Public Policy Fellows

2025 Dick & Ethie Haworth Free Speech Fellows Announced

2025 Dick & Ethie Haworth Free Speech Fellows Announced On November 19, 2025, the Russell Kirk Center will host the Richard D. McLellan Prizes Award Gala in Washington, D.C. at the National Press Club. The event, hosted by a distinguished prizes Jury, will honor...
Aliens to Life

Aliens to Life

The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World By Christine Rosen. W.W. Norton and Co., 2024. Hardcover, 272 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by J. Camden Kidwell. Eighteen years have passed since Steve Jobs released a device capable of putting cyberspace...
The Postwar British Conservative Movement

The Postwar British Conservative Movement

Blue Jerusalem: British Conservatism, Winston Churchill, and the Second World War By Kit Kowol. Oxford University Press, 2024. Hardcover, 352 pages, $38.99. Reviewed by Daniel Pitt. In Benjamin Disraeli’s great novel, Lothair, Mr. Phoebus remarks, “Books are fatal;...
Leisure and the Lost Ascent 

Leisure and the Lost Ascent 

An essay on Josef Pieper’s “Leisure: The Basis of Culture”  By Catherine Contonio. The modern world no longer recognizes the Greeks’ concept of leisure. The Greeks, in turn, would no longer recognize the modern notion of work, which has spread to cover the whole of...