Conservative Thought in America After World War II

Conservative Thought in America After World War II Class Time:Dates:Credits: Faculty: DescriptionThis course examines the conservative intellectual tradition in America from 1945 to the present. It explores the American conservative renaissance and the foremost...

The Historical Roots of American Order

The Historical Roots of American Order Class Time:Dates:Credits: Faculty: DescriptionThis course explores the historical roots of the American tradition and considers how the American Revolution did not represent a radical break from Western civilization. It traces...

Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left

Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left Class Time:Dates:Credits: Faculty: DescriptionThis course explores the roots of the great Right-Left political divide that emerged as part of an eighteenth-century debate between two formidable intellectual...

Russell Kirk, T.S. Eliot, and the Moral Imagination

Russell Kirk, T.S. Eliot, and the Moral Imagination Class Time:Dates:Credits: Faculty: DescriptionFirst used in Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France, the term “moral imagination” is an essential concept in modern conservative thought. This phrase,...

Seminar at Piety Hill for Certificate Students

Seminar at Piety Hill for Certificate Students Class Time: Dates: Faculty: DescriptionFor more than fifty years, thousands of students and dozens of distinguished lecturers have participated in Seminars at Piety Hill, the ancestral home of Russell Kirk. Importantly,...

Reforming Education Begins (and ends) with the Virtues

Teaching the Virtues By David Hein. Mecosta House, 2025. Paperback, 222 pages, $16.95. Reviewed by Thomas Griffin. Aristotle famously began his Metaphysics with a foundational principle: “All men by nature desire to know.” This leads to two further questions: What...

Irretrievable Eden

Outside The Gates of Eden By David Middleton. Measure Press, 2023. Hardcover, 114 pages, $25. Reviewed by Madeleine Austin. David Middleton’s Outside the Gates of Eden is a collection of formal poems rooted in contemplation of the Book of Genesis. What does it mean to...

Renewing Our Understanding of True Freedom

Called to Freedom: Retrieving Christian Liberty in an Age of License By Brad Littlejohn. B&H Academic, 2025. Paperback, 192 pages, $22.99. Reviewed by Andrew Fowler. Freedom could be Modernity’s most overused yet least understood word. In an American context,...

Abolitionism’s George Washington

The Conductor: The Story of Rev. John Rankin, Abolitionism’s Essential Founding Father By Caleb Franz. Post Hill Press, 2024. Paperback, 336 pages, $18.99. Reviewed by Peter Biles. The past is like a waterfall, and history is like the glass of water we pull from it....