Historical Consciousness: The Remembered Past by John Lukacs Reprinted by Transaction Publishers (Library of Conservative Thought), 1994. Review reprinted from The Sewanee Review, Spring 1969, Volume LXXVII, Number 2. Applying a philosophical intellect to the study of...
Mere unthinking negative opposition to the current of events, clutching in despair at what we still retain, will not suffice in this age. A conservatism of instinct must be reinforced by a conservatism of thought and imagination.
Below is a partial list of the books of Russell Kirk (memoirs, nonfiction, and fiction), as well as various books about him. Items marked with a bullet are still in print or readily available; for the others, we suggest you try a used book service such as abebooks.com...
Items on the Internet Lee Edwards wrote a piece on Kirk for Modern Age: “The Mind Behind ‘The Conservative Mind’” (Vol. 59, No. 4, Fall 2017). Jeffrey Dennis Pearce gave a talk on Virtue in Two Ghostly Tales of Russell Kirk in Mecosta in April of 2017. Mike Pence:...
A Unique Educational Opportunity The Kirk Center’s Residential Fellows Program affords students and scholars the ideal conditions in which they can conduct important research and writing. Fellows write books, essays, reviews, and theses while staying at Piety...
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Ian Crowe, M.A. (Oxon), M. Litt, Ph.D. Director, The Edmund Burke Society of America Bruce P. Frohnen, J.D., Ph.D. Professor of Law, Ohio Northern University College of Law Vigen Guroian, Ph.D. Professor of Religious Studies (Eastern Christianity), University of...
Jeff Nelson co-founded the Kirk Center with Annette Kirk and is currently Vice Chairman of the Center’s Board of Trustees. He served in 1986 and again in 1989 as Dr. Kirk’s personal assistant. Dr. Nelson is Executive Vice President of the Intercollegiate Studies...
Staff Annette Y. Kirk, Co-Founder and President Dr. Jeffrey O. Nelson, Co-Founder and Vice-Chairman Cecilia Kirk Nelson, Publications Manager Peter L. Edman, Webmaster Charles C. Brown, Archivist Board of Directors Hon. Joanne Emmons, former Michigan State Senator...
Russell Kirk’s 1953 book The Conservative Mind gave American conservatives an identity and a genealogy and catalyzed the postwar conservative movement.
