Current Problems and Eternal Questions
This issue of The University Bookman engages several subjects close to the heart of Russell Kirk’s work and vision in founding this journal. The study of history helps us to determine the underlying reality, what Kirk called the Logos, of the human condition. In...Our Neighbors and the Ground Beneath Us
We are very pleased to present you with this issue of the University Bookman. As befitting a quarterly devoted to serious books, the reviews cover numerous subjects with, we believe, learning and clear writing in explication of the major issues of our age. Continuing...History and the Moral Imagination
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...Kirk on Imagination
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.
Writings of Russell Kirk
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...Others on Russell Kirk
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:...Residential Fellowship Program
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...Contact Us
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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...
Decades ago, Robert Nisbet anticipated many of today’s concerns about loneliness, bureaucracy, and declining community. Luke C. Sheahan (@lsheahan) revisits the ideas behind those warnings and their relevance today.
Questions about first principles have become fashionable again. @HorcherF and @DanJTPitt apply generosity to smooth contention between intellectuals and politicians, they embrace the tension between theory and practice, and they highlight the power of particularity as a source of