What was Russell Kirk’s most popular book during his lifetime? Perhaps surprisingly, it is the novel, 
Old House of Fear, which the New York Times called “a grandly satisfactory tale of vivid adventure.” Eerdmans released a new edition in 2007, and this morally weighty thriller is now also available on Kindle.
Still, we have not yet checked the boxes that Tacitus identified in our Republican and Imperial predecessors.
It may be tottering in the hands of a succession of immoral geriatrics, we might be horrified at the incompetents we keep choosing to vote for, and we might be increasingly ignorant that how something is done is as important for republican freedom as what is done.