A Message from the President
Welcome to the website of the Russell Kirk Center. We hope that visitors to this site will be inspired to discover more about the life and thought of Russell Kirk and about the work of the Center that carries forward his legacy today. Russell believed deeply that...A Message from the President
Welcome to the website of the Russell Kirk Center. We hope that visitors to this site will be inspired to discover more about the life and thought of Russell Kirk and about the work of the Center that carries forward his legacy today. Russell believed deeply that...
Welcome
The Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal is a nonprofit educational institute based in Mecosta, Michigan, home of the American writer and thinker Russell Kirk (1918–1994). Continuing in the tradition of Dr. Kirk, the Center’s mission is to strengthen the...
About Russell Kirk
For more than forty years, Russell Kirk was in the thick of the intellectual controversies of his time. He is the author of some thirty-two books, hundreds of periodical essays, and many short stories. Both Time and Newsweek have described him as one of America’s...Site Under Development
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New Books to Watch For
Several Kirk-related books will be published in 2007. The Essential Russell Kirk: Selected Essays, edited and with introduction by George A. Panichas, is now available from ISI Books in both paper and cloth (ISBN 1933859016; Amazon link). Gerald J. Russello’s...New Burke Journal
Studies in Burke and His Time is now being published by the Edmund Burke Society in association with the Russell Kirk Center. It is an annual, edited by Joseph Pappin...Nash Book Edition
Senior Fellow George H. Nash’s influential book, The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945, has been re-issued in a thirtieth anniversary edition by ISI Books with a new preface and epilogue (Amazon...Change and Continuity
It is with great pleasure and a deep sense of gratitude that I assume the role of editor of The University Bookman. I want to extend my thanks to Jeff Nelson, Annette Kirk, the Earhart Foundation, the Bookman advisory board, and all the staff at the Kirk Center and...
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!