Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left
Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left Class Time:Dates:Credits: Faculty: DescriptionThis course explores the roots of the great Right-Left political divide that emerged as part of an eighteenth-century debate between two formidable intellectual...
The Moral Imagination in Literature and the Arts
The Moral Imagination in Literature and the Arts Class Time:Dates:Credits: Faculty: DescriptionFirst used in Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France, the term “moral imagination” is an essential concept in modern conservative thought. This phrase, which...
Seminar at Piety Hill for Certificate Students
Seminar at Piety Hill for Certificate Students Class Time: Dates: Faculty: DescriptionFor more than fifty years, thousands of students and dozens of distinguished lecturers have participated in Seminars at Piety Hill, the ancestral home of Russell Kirk. Importantly,...
Prospects for Anglo-American Conservatism in the Tradition of Russell Kirk and Roger Scruton
Prospects for Anglo-American Conservatism in the Tradition of Russell Kirk and Roger Scruton Join us on June 27 and 28, 2025, for a very special conference that considers the contemporary prospects for the Anglo-American intellectual conservative tradition. ...
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