Up From Conservatism: Revitalizing the Right after a Generation of Decay Edited by Arthur Milikh. Encounter Books, 2023. Hardcover, 240 pages, $32.99. Reviewed by Shaun Rieley. In recent years, it has become common on the Right to ask rhetorically, “what has...
American Heretics: Religious Adversaries of Liberal Order By Jerome E. Copulsky. Yale University Press, 2024. Hardcover, 384 pages, $40. Reviewed by Miles Smith IV. For the past few years—more specifically since Donald Trump made it very clear he was happy to pursue...
Annihilation (Anéantir) By Michel Houellebecq. Translated by Shaun Whiteside. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024. Hardcover, 544 pages, $30.00. Reviewed by Pedro Blas González. France in 2027 is the setting of Michel Houellebecq’s latest novel, Annihilation (Anéantir)....
Russell Kirk and the Conservative Disposition (Section 1) Dr. Jeff Polet, Ph.D.Director of the Ford Leadership Forum at the Gerald R. Ford Mr. Michael MaibachDistinguished Fellow for Save Our States Mr. Michael LuccheseFounder and CEO of...
Let Us Talk of Many Things By William F. Buckley Jr. Prima Lifestyles, 2000. Hardcover, 544 pages, $30.00. Reviewed by Bill Meehan. William F. Buckley Jr., friend of Russell Kirk, circulated The University Bookman to National Review subscribers for a number of years....
Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa By Anthony Grafton. Belknap Press, 2023. Hardcover, 304 pages, $39.95. Reviewed by Jesse Russell. “Dame Frances Yates” is a name that usually does not cross the lips of the educated public. However, in the field of...
Russell Kirk’s “Rights and Duties” translated into Italian by Dr. Agostino Carrino The Kirk Center is very pleased to announce that Russell Kirk’s book Rights and Duties has been translated into Italian by the distinguished legal scholar Agostino...
Let Us Begin: Saint Francis’s Way of Becoming Like Christ and Renewing the World By Thomas Griffin. Our Sunday Visitor, 2024. Paperback, 168 pages, $18.95. Reviewed by David G. Bonagura, Jr. The New Deal. The Great Society. No Child Left Behind. Build Back Better. The...
America First: Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War By H. W. Brands. Doubleday, 2024. Hardcover, 464 pages, $35. Reviewed by John C. “Chuck” Chalberg. With the first Trump administration still a lively memory and a second Trump presidency just getting...
2024 in Review: A Banner Year for the Kirk Center 2024 was a banner year in terms of the Kirk Center’s impact. We’re grateful for the goodwill and support of many friends around the nation and world who helped us take significant steps forward last year....
Protestant Institutionalism and Christian America
The great @MootsGlenn on the great @IVMiles.
"Religion & Republic: Christian America from the Founding to the Civil War" @DavenantInst Press.
Reviving the Vanished Voice of a Maker
Adam Schwartz (@christendomva) reviews "The Worlds of Dorothy L. Sayers: The Life and Works of the Crime Writer and Poet" by Stephen Wade. @penswordbooks
