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. To help capture the events, new programs, and milestones of 2024, we’ve created a year at a glance graphic below, as well as a more detailed annual highlights report.
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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 seventy this year. To help the student participants deepen their understanding of the meaning of...
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 Russell Kirk: character and composition. Participants...
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 conversation with former Vice...
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 conversation, they discuss the...