University of Louisville Students Consider Law, Culture, and the Afterlife at The Kirk Center Forty students from The University of Louisville traveled from Kentucky to the Kirk Center in Mecosta to attend a four-day seminar led by Kirk Center Senior Fellows and other...
Kirk Center Co-Founder Interviewed on “Coffee with Cornelius” Podcast Dr. Jeffrey Nelson, co-founder of The Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal, joined Cornelius Christian on his podcast to discuss the influence of the traditionalist conservative...
Professor Hiro Aida, Japanese translator of The Conservative Mind, tours Michigan colleges and visits the Kirk Center At Northwood University and Hope College, Professor Hiro Aida told students about the close relationship and parallel modernization of America and...
Imaginative Conservatism: The Letters of Russell Kirk A prolific author and wise cultural critic, Russell Kirk kept up a steady stream of correspondence with friends and colleagues throughout the world, but these letters have never been published until now....
C-SPAN History Airs Conservative Writers’ Panel Discussion Exploring the Legacy of Russell Kirk On November 13, 2018, University Bookman editor Gerald Russello, National Review Institute senior fellow John O’Sullivan, and Modern Age editor Daniel McCarthy gathered to...
Plymouth Library Hosts Capacity Audience for Presentation on Russell Kirk On October 19, 2018–100 years to the date that Russell Kirk was born in Plymouth, Michigan–the Plymouth District Library held an event celebrating his achievements. James Person, editor of...
By Francis P. Sempa. Patrick J. Buchanan has announced his retirement from writing his syndicated column. He is, at age 84, reportedly working on a memoir. Long before Donald Trump strode onto the political scene, Buchanan laid the intellectual foundations for an...
Roosevelt Sweeps Nation: FDR’s 1936 Landslide and the Triumph of the Liberal Ideal By David Pietrusza. Diversion Books, 2022. Hardcover, 544 pages, $34.99. Reviewed by John Hendrickson. David Pietrusza is both a gifted historian and storyteller. He is also the “Dean”...
The New Apologetics: Defending the Faith in a Post-Christian Era Edited by Matthew Nelson. Word on Fire Institute, 2022. Paperback, 288 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by Scott D. Moringiello. I regularly teach “Introduction to Catholicism” at DePaul University. Of the 40...
America’s Rise and Fall among Nations: Lessons in Statecraft from John Quincy Adams By Angelo M. Codevilla. Encounter Books, 2022. Hardcover, $30.99, 288 pages. Reviewed by John C. Chalberg. Angelo Codevilla is no longer with us, but his erudite wisdom and earthy wit...
Summer is here and the days are long. Slowing schedules allow time for many of us to sink into the queue of books that have been patiently waiting for us over the busyness of our end of spring schedules.