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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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Events
June 20: Public Seminar — Knights, Heroes, and Patriots: Howard Pyle and the Shaping of the American Moral Imagination
June 22: University Bookman Interview — Russell Kirk’s On America, with editor Michael Lucchese
August 6-9: The American Political Novel Seminar — Apply Here
September 26: Public Conference in Grand Rapids — Reclaiming Authentic Conservatism: Russell Kirk and the Roots of American Order
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Mecosta House Books
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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
G. K. Chesterton, Friend of Truth
“Each essay is well worth reading on its own, which should be the case whether you are a trained philosopher or something less—or more—than that.”
Latest Pieces
Toward an American Iliad
“As we approach our country’s 250th… Courage is needed, as is fidelity to the bond of ordered liberty that once spurred our forefathers to take up arms to secure the peace and safety we now enjoy.”
And I Will Go to the Altar of God
“…Professor Sheehan explores the development of the idea of sacrifice from its early roots in the pre-Christian classical world.”
A Liberal Who Met the Cancel Mob
“Biggar sees this aversion to reason and evidence (at least when they interfere with a politically useful narrative) to contain ‘the springs of tyranny,’ since once those are abandoned, the only means left to resolve disagreements is power. Thus, ‘postcolonialists and other “progressive” zealots assume an aggressive, intimidating, repressive, tyrannical posture.’”
The Midwestern Gothic Stories of Eric Cyr
“It is an unabashedly Midwestern endeavor in every way—a collection of short stories set entirely in the Midwest, written by a Midwestern author, and published by a proudly Midwestern independent publisher that has been producing top-quality books since its inception in 2013. “
Joseph Story and the Politics of the Early Republic
“the central theme of Clarke’s study is the extent to which the case for the federal common law rests on a thoroughly nationalist understanding of the American founding and union. At a basic level, a common law requires a common people. But even more importantly, Story needed a narrative of consolidated American nationhood to fill the yawning gap in his theory—that there was never any direct, national adoption of the common law.”
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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