Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left
Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left Class Time:Dates:Credits: Faculty: DescriptionThis course explores the roots of the great Right-Left political divide that emerged as part of an eighteenth-century debate between two formidable intellectual...
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...
Kirk saw poetry, fiction, tradition, and restraint as essential to understanding America and preserving its character. In his review of "On America," @cjscalia explores Kirk’s vision of the founding, statesmanship, literature, and the enduring ideas that have shaped the republic.