The Roots of American Order as the Foundation for a New Fusionism David D. Corey, Ph.D.Professor of Political Science in the Honors Program & Director, Baylor in Washington Bradley J. Birzer, Ph.D.Professor of History & Russell Amos Kirk Chair in...
The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer By Daniel J. Flynn. Encounter Books, 2025. Hardcover, 440 pages, $41.99. Reviewed by Bill Meehan. One rainy afternoon in June, I finally got around to reading the first section of Confessions of...
Fool: In Search of Henry VIII’s Closest Man By Peter K. Andersson. Princeton University Press, 2023. Hardcover, 224 pages, $27.95. Reviewed by Jesse Russell. No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a...
Participants Explore The American Political Novel This July, the Russell Kirk Center’s new School of Conservative Studies hosted its first in-person seminar, “The American Political Novel,” welcoming a select group of scholars and professionals to Mecosta. This...
Mackinac Center Interns Explore the Conservative Disposition at the Russell Kirk Center The Russell Kirk Center recently welcomed interns from the Mackinac Center for their annual intellectual retreat, this year centered on the theme “Russell Kirk and the Conservative...
“The Last God’s Dream,” while certainly among the more daring of Kirk’s “experiments in the moral imagination”(as he described his literary efforts), is also one of the more successful at blending the author’s varied interests in politics, history, literature, and metaphysics.