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Reviewing Books that Build Culture
Join friends of the Bookman in New York City on December 8, 2025 for the Gerald Russello Memorial Lecture.
Open Court Backlist Find
Open Court Publishing has found a stock of three Kirk-related books that had been thought out of print. You can order books directly from them by calling 800-815-2280 (or +1-603-924-7209); they do not appear on their website. The books available are Kirk's essay...
Kirk and Buckley on Video
The Kirk Center is pleased to announce that will periodically be posting video clips from our archive on the web site. The first two videos are now available—a 1993 interview with Russell Kirk on the fortieth anniversary of The Conservative Mind, and a 1996 interview...
Buckley on Kirk
William F. Buckley, Jr., interviewed on Kirk and his contributions, May 1996.Russell Kirk and William F. Buckley were leading writers and thinkers in the emerging U.S. conservative movement. In this video from May 13, 1996, Donovan Reynolds interviews the late Mr....
Russell Kirk on The Conservative Mind
Russell Kirk, interviewed about The Conservative Mind, 1993.Russell Kirk and historian William H. Mulligan, Jr., of Murray State University look back on the writing and reception of The Conservative Mind in this video interview from 1993, the fortieth anniversary of...
William F. Buckley, RIP
Gerald Russello expresses our condolences on the death of William F. Buckley.
The Legacies of Edmund Burke and Robert Frost
An Interview with Peter J. Stanlis The Bookman is pleased to publish this interview with Peter J. Stanlis, Distinguished Professor of Humanities, Emeritus, at Rockford College and one of the foremost scholars of Edmund Burke and Robert Frost. Stanlis’s groundbreaking...
Recapturing the Moral Imagination through Scotland
The Sporran by G. L. Gregg (Butler Books, 2007, 275 pp.), $17.95.In his work, Russell Kirk stressed the overriding importance of the moral imagination. The moral imagination, the dynamic interplay of the mind where ideas about good and evil, right and wrong, form...
Reminder
Given the recent turmoil in Pakistan, we thought we would remind you of a two-part review of a study of that troubled nation that appeared in issues 45:1 and 45:2 of the Bookman, written by David Campion, a professor of history at Lewis & Clark College.
BookmanRSS
Since the Bookman is now offering web-only articles, we now offer, in addition to the RSS feed for Kirk Center news items, a syndicationfeed for all Bookman articles. We hope you find it useful.
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.
