The War for the Second Age
The Fall of Númenor, And Other Tales from the Second Age of Middle-earth By J. R. R. Tolkien. William Morrow, 2022. Hardcover, 320 pages, $40.00. Reviewed by Ben Reinhard. From childhood well into middle age, J. R. R. Tolkien was haunted by a recurring nightmare: a...
The Founders and the Constitution on Religious Liberty
Religious Liberty and the American Founding: Natural Rights and the Original Meanings of the First Amendment Religion Clauses By Vincent Phillip Muñoz. The University of Chicago Press, 2022. Paperback, 344 pages, $30. Reviewed by Thomas G. West. In a field crowded...
Seminar Explores Shakespeare’s Plutarch
Seminar Explores Shakespeare’s Plutarch On March 25 – 27, Hillsdale College students gathered for a seminar at the Kirk Center on the topic: “If You Have Writ Your Annals True: Plutarchan Lives and Shakespearian Tragedies.” Students read aloud selections...
Book Launch of The Conservative Mind in Brazil
Book Launch of The Conservative Mind in Brazil We’re pleased to announce that The Conservative Mind, translated into Portuguese for the first time, has recently been published in Brazil. On January 12th, Alex Catharino, the writer of the introduction, conducted...
The University Bookman at 60: A Retrospective
The University Bookman at 60: A Retrospective This year, the University Bookman celebrates its 60th year of publication. Historian George Nash charts the journal from its origins in an arrangement between Russell Kirk and William F. Buckley Jr. to its evolution into a...
College Students Attend The Tocqueville Forum’s Retreat at The Kirk Center
College Students Attend The Tocqueville Forum’s Retreat at The Kirk Center The Kirk Center hosted students from The Tocqueville Forum of Hope College, joined by additional students from Northwood University, for an intellectual retreat titled “From Statesmanship...
University of Louisville Students Consider Law, Culture, and the Afterlife at The Kirk Center
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
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
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...
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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."