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...
The Moral Imagination in Literature and the Arts 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, which...
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,...
The American Political Novel Dr. David Hein, Ph.D.Distinguished Teaching Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center X Dates: July 24-27, 2025Faculty: Dr. David HeinLocation: The Russell Kirk Center Description:This is a new immersive seminar that explores the...
Russell Kirk and the Conservative Disposition (Section 2) Dr. Ryan Streeter, Ph.D.Executive Director of the Civitas Institute Dr. Lee Trepanier, Ph.D.Dean of D’Amour College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Assumption University Date: July 22, 2025Faculty:...
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...
.@JM_Butcher himself admits that there are in fact important divisions within American society, but he believes that “Americans are united on some very important questions that are driving debates in statehouses, schoolhouses, and even your house.” In this, as in nearly all that
Despite [Kirk's] and others’ efforts to prevent further decline in transcendent beliefs, more than a century later, it is clear that those Americans who adhere to them represent a small and frequently marginalized minority. @fhmcclatchey must be counted among their number, for he