Tradition and Apocalypse: An Essay on the Future of Christian Belief By David Bentley Hart. Baker Academic, 2022. Hardcover, 208 pages, $24.99. Reviewed by Paul Krause. “Once upon a time, Christianity grew and endured and even flourished over the course of many...
The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy By Anand Giridharadas. Knopf, 2022. Hardcover, 352 pages, $30. Reviewed by Gilbert NMO Morris. Inflection points are transitional and transformative: And so are temporary dynamics of the...
Shakespeare and the Idea of Western Civilization By R. V. Young. Catholic University of America Press, 2022. Paperback, 280 pages, $34.95. Reviewed by Michael Yost. It would be almost a miracle if anyone who has read, understood, and formed opinions around the...
Testimonies to the Truth: Why You Can Trust the Gospels By Lydia McGrew. Deward Publishing, 2023. Paperback, 276 pages, $15.99. Reviewed by David Weinberger. Millions of Americans who tuned in to the 2023 Super Bowl were exposed to advertisements for Jesus. The ad...
The Great Books podcast features Luke Sheahan On The Great Books podcast, host John J. Miller was joined by Luke Sheahan, editor of The University Bookman, to discuss Robert Nisbet’s landmark book, The Quest for Community. Sheahan gives a wonderfully lucid...
TFAS Fellows Seek Sources of Conservative Renewal On October 20-23, the Russell Kirk Center welcomed participants from The Fund for American Studies (TFAS) to its first program held at the Kirk Center in Mecosta. An impressive class of their Public Policy Fellows,...
The Fund for American Studies (TFAS) Participant Writes Article on Visiting the Kirk Center for National Review We hope you enjoy this essay from recent seminar participant, Bobby Miller: Kirk’s life was consumed with the recuperation and preservation of what he...
Interns from the Mackinac Center for Public Policy gathered at the Kirk Center Interns from the Mackinac Center for Public Policy gathered at the Kirk Center on July 8, 2022, for a day-long seminar on “Dimensions of Contemporary Conservatism.” Faculty speakers...
Dr. Luke C. Sheahan appointed the fifth editor of The University Bookman On November 7, 2021, the Russell Kirk Center’s flagship publication, The University Bookman, lost its longtime editor, Gerald J. Russello, to cancer. Gerald was just 50 yet had been a fixture in...
What Do Students Say about the Center? April was a busy month of programming at the Kirk Center. Of the four educational programs we held, two were four-day seminars for graduate and undergraduate students, while the other two were shorter programs for students from...
Personalism in the Age of AI Grant R. Martsolf on "Personalism for the Twenty-First Century: Essays in Honor of David Walsh" Edited by Thomas W. Holman and Richard Avramenko.
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