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Strengthening America’s Tradition of Order, Justice & Freedom
The Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal aims to recover, conserve, and enliven those enduring norms and principles that Russell Kirk (1918–1994) called the Permanent Things. Explore the Center’s programs, publications, and fellowships and join with us to continue Kirk’s work to renew our culture and redeem our time.
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Highlights
New Book: Russell Kirk’s On America: How to Understand the Legacy of 1776
John Engler named as Chairman of the Kirk Center’s Board
Classic Kirk essay: On the Constitution: “A Revolution Not Made, But Prevented”
Visiting Scholar Daniel Pitt discusses Disraeli and the Conservative Tradition
Events
September 15, 22, 29: Russell Kirk on America Virtual Master Class — Apply Here
September 26: Public Conference in Grand Rapids — Reclaiming Authentic Conservatism: Russell Kirk and the Roots of American Order
Available now from Creed & Culture
Mecosta House Books
Explore Mecosta House
At Mecosta House, we aim to combine with the Kirk Center’s programs to foster an intellectual community dedicated to exploring the wisdom of our predecessors while forging a new conservative humanism.
We hope our readers will be edified by the titles we publish, and that they will strengthen the programs and the courses we will introduce at the Kirk Center as part of our School of Conservative Studies. David Hein’s Teaching the Virtues offers a fresh look at a perennial educational aim—encouraging virtue in the next generation, and we are proud to present it as our first book.
From the University Bookman
Letters of a Literary Legend
“These letters further confirm that Bloom, a guardian of our Western literary heritage, was one of the most important minds of the past half century.”
Latest Pieces
Shakespeare and the Art of Reading
“The humanities are necessary, Keilen argues, for us to function as a society. Education should come through reading the great works of literature, and, in the English language, Shakespeare is among the greatest teachers.”
A Collection of Children’s Stories That Transcends the Usual Fare
“The language and style are vivid and elegant all throughout, and the stories have a timeless quality that works on multiple levels.”
The Brothers Stuart and the Rise of Protestant England
“…Belloc remains a draught of fresh air and a happy antidote to the official version of English national history, with its idealized tale of public-spirited reforms and liberal advances broadening down to the happy present.”
The Fog of the American War for Independence
“Academic and popular history of the period has long noted the early intimidation and violence that accompanied the rise of an American political consciousness and revolutionary movement.”
“To Think Faith” as Educators
“…faith and pedagogy should be in harmony. Smith’s guide is not a theory of faith and teaching or how to sprinkle faith within teaching. ‘It offers repeated practice at noticing and thinking through ways in which faith and the process of teaching might connect in everyday practice,’ in the mundane moments of elementary, secondary, or higher education classrooms.”
About the Bookman
For six decades, the University Bookman, founded by Russell Kirk, has identified and discussed those books that diagnose the modern age and support the renewal of culture and the common good. Currently published online, the Bookman continues its mission of examining our times in light of the Permanent Things that make us human.
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