The Conservative Mind
The Conservative Mind Dr. Michael P. Federici is a Senior Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center. He is also Professor and former Chair of the Department of Political Science and Global Affairs at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU), where he currently serves as...
The Perennial Edmund Burke
The Perennial Edmund Burke Gregory Collins, Ph.D.Lecturer in the Program on Ethics, Politics, and Economics and Department of Political Science at Yale University Time: Tuesdays, 7:00 – 8:30 pm ETDates: March 3, 11, 17, 24Faculty: Dr. Gregory CollinsLocation:...
The Urbanity of Russell Kirk
The following was given by James Panero at the Fourth Annual Gerald Russello Memorial Lecture on December 8, 2025, in New York City. E.B. White famously declared that “No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.” Tonight, I feel such luck...
Buckley and Edwards: The Titan of Conservatism and His Titan of a Biographer
William F. Buckley Jr.: The Maker of a Movement By Lee Edwards. ISI Books, 2010/2019. Paperback, 224 pages, $16.95. Reviewed by Nicholas Mosvick. Last December, the venerable scholar of the conservative movement and the human force behind the Victims of Communism...
Robert Nisbet’s The Social Philosophers Revisited: Conservative Pluralism versus the Mania for Unity
The Social Philosophers: Community and Conflict in Western Thought By Robert Nisbet, with a new Foreword by Luke C. Sheahan. American Philosophical Society Press, 1973/2025. Paperback, 440 pages, $26.95. Reviewed by Daniel J. Mahoney. Robert Nisbet was one of the most...
The Social Philosophers: A Reading for the Present
The Social Philosophers: Community and Conflict in Western Thought By Robert Nisbet, with a new Foreword by Luke C. Sheahan. American Philosophical Society Press, 1973/2025. Paperback, 440 pages, $26.95. Reviewed by Lucía Vallejo Rodríguez. On June 3, 1973, in a...
A Sociology of the Permanent Things: Nisbet’s Tocquevillian Philosophy
The Social Philosophers: Community and Conflict in Western Thought By Robert Nisbet, with a new Foreword by Luke C. Sheahan. American Philosophical Society Press, 1973/2025. Paperback, 440 pages, $26.95. Reviewed by Michael Lucchese. Academia is hardly considered a...
Natural Law and the Need for Moral Clarity
Hopeful Realism: Evangelical Natural Law and Democratic Politics By Jesse Covington, Bryan T. McGraw, and Micah Watson. IVP Academic, 2025. Paperback, 264 pages, $26.00. Reviewed by Josh Herring. At the 2025 Academy of Philosophy and Letters meeting, Jason Jewell...
Moral Realism Over and Against Contingent Pluralism
Hopeful Realism: Evangelical Natural Law and Democratic Politics By Jesse Covington, Bryan T. McGraw, and Micah Watson. IVP Academic, 2025. Paperback, 264 pages, $26.00. Reviewed by William H. Rooney. Hopeful Realism is a laudable collaboration among three political...
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What the American Revolution Secured: Order, Justice, and Freedom
A "revolution not made, but prevented.” Russell Kirk fondly and frequently quoted E. J. Payne’s pithy summary of Burke’s view of the Glorious Revolution.
"So yes, Lord Alfred, perhaps you are right after all. ’Tis not too late to seek a newer world! Perhaps one last Ulyssean adventure remains beyond the sunset, and perhaps some work of noble note may yet be done."