Companion Site for Kirk Audio and Video

Dr. David Schock has produced several audio and video recordings by and about Russell Kirk and is hosting them on a companion web site: TheWardrobe.org. We are pleased to welcome a companion web site, produced by Dr. David Schock, that features video interviews with...

Permanent Things Newsletter

We are pleased to announce a new number of Permanent Things, the newsletter of the Russell Kirk Center, edited by Ben Lockerd. The spring 2009 edition features a retrospective of thirty years of the Wilbur Foundation program. You may download it at this link (PDF,...

Winter Bookman

The new Winter 2008 edition of the University Bookman is now available online. It is a special edition featuring an assessment of the work and legacy of Russell Kirk on the fifteenth anniversary of his death. Subscribe here.

Books in Little

Thomas E. Woods, Jr., How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization (Regnery Publishing, Inc., 289 pp.) Most standard surveys of Western civilization tend to treat superficially, if they treat at all, the period of history stretching from the fall of the Roman...

A Formidable Conservative Mind

Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction by Thomas K. McCraw. Belknap Press (Cambridge, Mass.) 736 pp., $35 cloth, 2007 By the middle of the eighteenth century, writes Joseph Alois Schumpeter in his History of Economic Analysis, “the time of...