Why Cervantes’ Don Quixote Matters
By Pedro Blas Gonzalez. Plainness, Sancho, for all affectation is bad (Llaneza, Sancho, que toda afectación es mala). – Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes addresses perennial concerns about human nature and reality, the snare of confusing...
Hon. John Engler Now Serves as the Kirk Center’s Chairman of the Board
Hon. John Engler Now Serves as the Kirk Center’s Chairman of the Board In January of 2026 the Russell Kirk Center board approved the Hon. John Engler to serve as the Center’s Chairman of the Board. John M. Engler is a nationally respected statesman, policy...
After Ideology but Before the Revolution: The Liberal Soul
The Growth of the Liberal Soul (2nd Edition) By David Walsh. University of Notre Dame Press, 1997/2025. Paperback, 416 pages, $39. Reviewed by Barry Cooper. In The Modern Philosophical Revolution (2008), David Walsh tells us where he changed his mind on several...
Liberalism’s Death Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
The Growth of the Liberal Soul (2nd Edition) By David Walsh. University of Notre Dame Press, 1997/2025. Paperback, 416 pages, $39. Reviewed by Joseph R. Fornieri. In today’s hyper polarized climate, the partisan label of “liberal” denotes either praise or blame...
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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."