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...
Acton Interns Explore the Conservative Disposition at 2025 Kirk Center Retreat The Russell Kirk Center welcomed Acton Institute interns for their annual intellectual retreat, focusing on the topic of “Russell Kirk and the Conservative Disposition.” To help the student...
Recapping our First School of Conservative Studies Conference: Prospects for Anglo-American Conservatism in the Tradition of Russell Kirk and Roger Scruton On June 27–28, 2025, the Russell Kirk Center welcomed more than 130 participants and twenty-two speakers from...
An Evening with Christopher Dawson: Introducing a Historian of Culture Dr. Joseph Stuart, Ph.D.Director of History & Fellow in Catholic Studies at the University of Mary Time: 7:00 – 8:00 PM ETDate: September 2, 2025Faculty: Dr. Joseph Stuart...
“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.