An Introduction to the Thought of Marshall McLuhan
An Introduction to the Thought of Marshall McLuhan Meet Your Instructor:Zachary Good is the Director of Education at the St. John Henry Newman Institute. In addition to his work at SJHNI, he has more than 15 years of experience teaching, training, and mentoring...
Benjamin Disraeli and the Conservative Tradition
Benjamin Disraeli and the Conservative Tradition Dr. Daniel PittHonorary Research Fellow at the University of Buckingham X Date: August 28, 2026Time: 4:00 – 5:00 pm ETFaculty: Dr. Daniel PittLocation: Russell Kirk Center Library Description: Russell Kirk regarded...
The American Political Novel: All The King’s Men
The American Political Novel: All The King’s Men Dr. David Hein, Ph.D.Distinguished Teaching Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center X Dates: August 6 – 9, 2026Faculty: Dr. David HeinLocation: The Russell Kirk Center Description:This is an immersive seminar...
Knights, Heroes, and Patriots: Howard Pyle and the Shaping of the American Moral Imagination
Knights, Heroes, and Patriots: Howard Pyle and the Shaping of the American Moral Imagination About your Instructor:Dr. David P. Deavel (Ph.D., Fordham) is an associate professor and chairman of the department of theology at the University of St. Thomas in Houston,...
Traditional Conservatism and Classical Liberalism (Section 2)
Traditional Conservatism and Classical Liberalism (Section 2) Meet the Instructors:Luke C. Sheahan is associate professor of political science at Duquesne University, a senior affiliate in the Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society (PRRUCS) at the...
France and the Problem of Abstraction
Prosperity and Torment in France: The Paradox of the Democratic Age By Chantal Delsol. University of Notre Dame Press, 2025. Hardcover, 154 pages, $30. Reviewed by Godefroy Desjonquères. Reading Chantal Delsol’s Prosperity and Torment in France as a French person is a...
Humane Literature and the Divided Soul
The Divided Soul: Duty and Desire in Literature and Life By Heidi White. Goldberry, 2025. Hardcover, 238 pages. $29.00. Reviewed by Gary Hartenburg. Heidi White’s debut book, The Divided Soul: Duty and Desire in Literature and Life, unites a memoir in fragments with a...
Antisemitism, a Foreign Tradition
Antisemitism, an American Tradition By Pamela S. Nadell. W. W. Norton, 2025. Hardcover, 352 Pages, $31.99. Reviewed by Elan Kluger. Every political movement has a philosophy of history and recent American politics has offered quite the olio. Barack Obama’s “Hope” was...
Traditional Conservatism and Classical Liberalism (Section 1)
Traditional Conservatism and Classical Liberalism (Section 1) Meet the Instructors:Luke C. Sheahan is associate professor of political science at Duquesne University, a senior affiliate in the Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society (PRRUCS) at the...
Kirk saw poetry, fiction, tradition, and restraint as essential to understanding America and preserving its character. In his review of "On America," @cjscalia explores Kirk’s vision of the founding, statesmanship, literature, and the enduring ideas that have shaped the republic.