Jeffrey O. Nelson
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...Board and Staff
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...NYT on Kirk
Russell Kirk’s 1953 book The Conservative Mind gave American conservatives an identity and a genealogy and catalyzed the postwar conservative movement.Annette Y. Kirk
Annette Y. Kirk is president of the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal, director of its residential Fellows Program, and publisher of the journals The University Bookman and Studies in Burke and His Time. She also serves as an advisor to the Mackinac Center for...Engler on Kirk
Russell Kirk has defended traditional values in a culture that restlessly seeks the shock of the new. Through numerous writings and lectures, conversations and seminars, he has taught Americans about America—about its deeply conservative habits, about the roots of its...Reagan on Kirk
As the prophet of American conservatism, Russell Kirk has taught, nurtured, and inspired a generation. From . . . Piety Hill, he reached deep into the roots of American values, writing and editing central works of political philosophy. His intellectual...Kirk on Renewal
A culture is perennially in need of renewal. A culture does not survive and prosper merely by being taken for granted; active defense is always required, and imaginative growth, too.A Message from the President
Welcome to the website of the Russell Kirk Center. We hope that visitors to this site will be inspired to discover more about the life and thought of Russell Kirk and about the work of the Center that carries forward his legacy today. Russell believed deeply that...A Message from the President
Welcome to the website of the Russell Kirk Center. We hope that visitors to this site will be inspired to discover more about the life and thought of Russell Kirk and about the work of the Center that carries forward his legacy today. Russell believed deeply that...
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