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Items on the Internet Lee Edwards wrote a piece on Kirk for Modern Age: “The Mind Behind ‘The Conservative Mind’” (Vol. 59, No. 4, Fall 2017). Jeffrey Dennis Pearce gave a talk on Virtue in Two Ghostly Tales of Russell Kirk in Mecosta in April of 2017. Mike Pence:...Residential Fellowship Program
A Unique Educational Opportunity The Kirk Center’s Residential Fellows Program affords students and scholars the ideal conditions in which they can conduct important research and writing. Fellows write books, essays, reviews, and theses while staying at Piety...Contact Us
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Jeff Nelson co-founded the Kirk Center with Annette Kirk and is currently Vice Chairman of the Center’s Board of Trustees. He served in 1986 and again in 1989 as Dr. Kirk’s personal assistant. Dr. Nelson is Executive Vice President of the Intercollegiate Studies...Board and Staff
Staff Annette Y. Kirk, Co-Founder and President Dr. Jeffrey O. Nelson, Co-Founder and Vice-Chairman Cecilia Kirk Nelson, Publications Manager Peter L. Edman, Webmaster Charles C. Brown, Archivist Board of Directors Hon. Joanne Emmons, former Michigan State Senator...NYT on Kirk
Russell Kirk’s 1953 book The Conservative Mind gave American conservatives an identity and a genealogy and catalyzed the postwar conservative movement.Engler on Kirk
Russell Kirk has defended traditional values in a culture that restlessly seeks the shock of the new. Through numerous writings and lectures, conversations and seminars, he has taught Americans about America—about its deeply conservative habits, about the roots of its...Reagan on Kirk
As the prophet of American conservatism, Russell Kirk has taught, nurtured, and inspired a generation. From . . . Piety Hill, he reached deep into the roots of American values, writing and editing central works of political philosophy. His intellectual...
There are metaphorical hills on which I would be willing to die. The Oxford comma is one of them.
So easy to forget that the best way to educate yourself is to read great works of literature and philosophy, then talk about them. Bring back the salon!