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Videos from our 2024 McLellan Prizes Gala held in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

The School of Conservative Studies

While there are many bright spots on America’s educational landscape, there is no center dedicated to the academic study of conservative thought. To reclaim the American conservative mind and constitutional soul, we have an opportunity to launch a focused educational program of studies that explores the fullness of conservative thought with students, researchers, journalists, and teachers at every level.

This is the Russell Kirk Center’s new School of Conservative Studies.

The School will be a series of integrated programs providing a comprehensive education in conservatism, both its key ideas and its imaginative dimensions. It will feature expert thinkers that connect students to timeless ideals and their humanistic foundations, as well as show how the American conservative tradition can help us address today’s practical and urgent dilemmas.

It will host courses and events at our village campus in Mecosta. Spending time in the historic library of Russell Kirk and his ancestral house, which has been celebrated throughout the conservative movement for being Tolkien-esque, “the last homely house.” A place where real transformation occurs in the classroom and in community.

The Book Gallery

The Book Gallery is a series of virtual conversations hosted by University Bookman editor Luke Sheahan. It features authors of non-fiction and fiction reviewed in the University Bookman or that we otherwise think our audience of imaginatively-inclined conservatives will find interesting. The series began in the fall of 2022 and has covered topics such as Russell Kirk’s fiction, the future of the American economy, and the works of Christopher Dawson.