We are delighted to announce that James E. Person Jr. has been named a Senior Fellow of theRussell Kirk Center. Mr. Person is a long-time friend of the Center. He is a publishing manager, writer, and editor at large, and the author, among other books of Russell Kirk: A Critical Biography of a Conservative Mind (1999). Currently he is editing the forthcoming Selected Letters of Russell Kirk.
Kirk saw poetry, fiction, tradition, and restraint as essential to understanding America and preserving its character. In his review of "On America," @cjscalia explores Kirk’s vision of the founding, statesmanship, literature, and the enduring ideas that have shaped the republic.