The Russell Kirk Center

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Defending traditional values in a culture that restlessly seeks the shock of the new.

The Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal continues in the work of American writer and thinker Russell Kirk (1918–1994) through a variety of publications, seminars, and residential fellowships.

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At the Center

Upcoming Event for Attorneys and Law Students

Upcoming Event for Attorneys and Law Students

20 Jan

The Society for Law and Culture will gather to discuss “Moral Imagination and the Law” on Saturday, May 19, 2018 at the Kirk Center. We are pleased to announce the following distinguished speakers: the Hon. Caleb Stegall, Justice, Kansas Supreme Court; the Hon....

Kirk on Campus Hosts Douthat, Tanenbaum, and Bauerlein at Hope College

Kirk on Campus Hosts Douthat, Tanenbaum, and Bauerlein at Hope College

02 Nov

Join Kirk on Campus at Hope College in Holland, Michigan, on Thursday, November 16 at 7:00 p.m., for a spirited conversation with Ross Douthat of the New York Times, Sam Tanenhaus of the New York Times, Mark Bauerlein of First Things, moderated by Hope College’s Jeff...

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On Campus

Bradley J. Birzer

13 May

Bradley J. Birzer is well known through his magisterial biography, Russell Kirk: American Conservative. As a result of that terrific book and his years of writing, especially as the co-founder and senior contributor of The Imaginative Conservative, Brad is recognized...

DAVID HEIN, M.A., PH.D.

08 Aug

David Hein is Distinguished Teaching Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal.He is a trustee of Saint James School (Hagerstown, MD), a trustee of the George C. Marshall Foundation (Lexington, VA), and a former trustee of his alma mater, St. Paul’s...

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University Bookman

Laugh, It’ll Be Alright

Laugh, It’ll Be Alright

05 Jun

How to Destroy Western Civilization is a book that will appeal both to old-fashioned conservatives shouting at the clouds and the new-fangled counterculture needing a game plan—and a joke book—for its rebellion. 

Kirk on Campus Hosts Douthat, Tanenbaum, and Bauerlein at Hope College

Kirk on Campus Hosts Douthat, Tanenbaum, and Bauerlein at Hope College

02 Nov

Join Kirk on Campus at Hope College in Holland, Michigan, on Thursday, November 16 at 7:00 p.m., for a spirited conversation with Ross Douthat of the New York Times, Sam Tanenhaus of the New York Times, Mark Bauerlein of First Things, moderated by Hope College’s Jeff...

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