Following Dante’s Footsteps
Dante’s Footsteps: Poems and Reflections on Poetry By Paul Krause. Stone Tower Press, 2025. Paperback, 104 pages, $19.95. Reviewed by Raleigh Adams. Dante’s Footsteps, a new collection of poems and reflections from Paul Krause, offers a winding and artful overview of...
Suicide Narratives and the Goodness of Being
Suicide in Modern Catholic Literature By Martin Lockerd. Cascade Books, 2025. Paperback, 196 pages, $27. Reviewed by John Ehrett. Around the world, assisted suicide—now going under the perverse euphemism “MAID,” or “Medical Assistance In Dying”—has become a...
2025 Mickey Shapiro Free Speech Fellows Announced
2025 Mickey Shapiro Free Speech Fellows Announced The Kirk Center is pleased to introduce our other McLellan Prizes fellowships cohort, including the Mickey Shapiro Free Speech Fellows. Each Shapiro Fellow will receive a $12,500 fellowship to pursue writing, research,...
Celebrating William F. Buckley’s 100th
Celebrating William F. Buckley’s 100th On October 23, we gathered in Grand Rapids with partners organizations to remember the life and legacy of William F. Buckley Jr. Two panels—The Role of Education in a Free Society and Fusionisms, Old and New—brought together...
Legislators and Policymakers Have Intellectual Retreat
Legislators and Policymakers Have Intellectual Retreat Our Politics of Prudence Seminars bring together state legislators and policymakers who want to deepen their understanding of the conservative intellectual tradition and apply conservative principles to...
The Case Against Buckley
Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America By Sam Tanenhaus. Random House, 2025. Hardcover, 1040 pages, $40.00. Reviewed by James Panero. Less than a mile separates the Catholic cemetery of Saint Bernard, the burial site of William F. Buckley Jr., off...
Beyond Stoicism
After Stoicism: Last Words of the Last Roman Philosopher By Thomas M. Ward. Word on Fire Academic, 2024. Hardcover, 216 pages, $34.95. 365 Lessons from the Stoics By Andrea Kirk Assaf. William Collins, 2024. Hardcover, 256 pages, $19.19 Reviewed by Father Joseph...
The Russell Kirk Center Welcomes TFAS Public Policy Fellows
The Russell Kirk Center Welcomes TFAS Public Policy Fellows From October 16–18, the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal welcomed twenty Public Policy Fellows from The Fund for American Studies (TFAS) for a weekend seminar on “The Roots of American Order as the...
2025 Dick & Ethie Haworth Free Speech Fellows Announced
2025 Dick & Ethie Haworth Free Speech Fellows Announced On November 19, 2025, the Russell Kirk Center will host the Richard D. McLellan Prizes Award Gala in Washington, D.C. at the National Press Club. The event, hosted by a distinguished prizes Jury, will honor...
A great review of my collection of poetry @ubookman which highlights that "poetry has always been about love—about the heavens and the burning passion of the human heart." Read the review, then read and enjoy the music of poetry and let your heart soar!
https://kirkcenter.org/reviews/following-dantes-footsteps/