by Cecilia Nelson | Sep 4, 2023
Acton Institute interns on their annual Kirk Center retreat: “Absolutely fantastic!” The Kirk Center welcomed Acton Institute interns for their 2023 intellectual retreat, focusing on Russell Kirk’s best known work, The Conservative Mind, which turns...
by Cecilia Nelson | Sep 2, 2023
Writing and the Moral Imagination Workshop This July, the Kirk Center held its first conference focused on “Writing and the Moral Imagination” for a select group of young professionals. The program brings together two themes central to the life and work of...
by Chris Marlink | Jun 23, 2023
What Do Conservatives Believe? An evening conversation with Mike Pence and Betsy DeVos On Wednesday, May 31, 2023, The Russell Kirk Center made institutional history by hosting nearly 300 leaders, students and educators, friends and supporters at an event featuring a...
by Cecilia Nelson | May 16, 2023
Interview with Jeff Nelson Josh Lewis, host of Saving Elephants podcast, interviewed Kirk Center CEO Jeff Nelson on how he came to know and work for Russell Kirk and Kirk’s major contributions to articulating the American conservative tradition. In a wide-ranging...
by Cecilia Nelson | May 15, 2023
Talks Engaging Kirk’s Thought Elsewhere Bishop Robert Barron, founder of Word on Fire Ministries, delivered the 2023 Russell Kirk Lecture at the Heritage Foundation on “The Breakdown of the Tocquevillean Equilibrium.” Saving Elephants podcast...
by Cecilia Nelson | Apr 11, 2023
Otto von Habsburg Foundation connects with the Kirk Center In a 1959 letter to Russell Kirk, Otto von Habsburg, Archduke of Austria-Hungary, wrote: “I am very much interested to learn from your letter that you devote so much attention to the development of [the...