The Russell Kirk Center
Cultural Renewal
- Website
- kirkcenter.org · all feeds from this site
- Feed URL
https://kirkcenter.org/feed/
Read it in your FeedListing reader
Or add to: Feedly Inoreader Raw feed
Latest posts
-
“The Truths We Keep Coming Back and Back to”: A Critical Sampling of Gloria Whelan’s Short Fiction
"If Kirk—himself a superb literary critic—considered Whelan 'the best writer of short stories ever to inhabit Michigan,' it stands to reason that her works merit wider attention."
-
Every Line Read Is a Gain
"That is the whole of Campo’s argument, and the whole of her temperament, in a single anecdote: the conviction that attention to something perfect is not an evasion of catastrophe but the only serious response to it. It is also why she is worth the time of anyone who reads…
-
TFAS Public Policy Fellows Explore The Roots of American Order at Piety Hill
TFAS Public Policy Fellows Explore The Roots of American Order at Piety Hill From October 15–18, the Russell Kirk Center welcomed twenty Woodhouse Public Policy Fellows from The Fund for American Studies (TFAS) for a thought-provoking seminar on Russell Kirk’s magisterial The…
-
Confronting our Current Digital Malaise
"Luke Burgis has written an interesting book exploring the tension between belonging and differentiation."
-
A Secular Confession
"The story that she tells in these pages is one of a brewing and ongoing civil war, a civil war not between left and right in America, but a civil war within the Democratic Party."
-
Ames, Hamilton, Marshall: Russell Kirk’s Other Founding Federalists
"The Federalist party, of course, is no more. It barely lasted past the fiftieth anniversary of American independence. But, as Russell Kirk demonstrated throughout his work, its conservative vision remains one of the most profound expressions of the meaning of the American…
-
Going West, Berlin Style
"How did this fifty-year period and 33-year separation shape West Berlin into a city? How did the identity of this city evolve over time from simply being the Allied stronghold in Communist territories into a flourishing city in its own right? And what were the limitations that…
-
More Religion, Less Spiritualism, Please
"But there is nothing new about the 'spiritual but not religious' crowd: they are, in a certain, degraded sense, merely the spiritual and intellectual heirs of the occult revivalists who popped up in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries..."
-
Letters of a Literary Legend
"These letters further confirm that Bloom, a guardian of our Western literary heritage, was one of the most important minds of the past half century."
-
Shakespeare and the Art of Reading
"The humanities are necessary, Keilen argues, for us to function as a society. Education should come through reading the great works of literature, and, in the English language, Shakespeare is among the greatest teachers."
-
A Collection of Children’s Stories That Transcends the Usual Fare
"The language and style are vivid and elegant all throughout, and the stories have a timeless quality that works on multiple levels."
-
The Brothers Stuart and the Rise of Protestant England
"...Belloc remains a draught of fresh air and a happy antidote to the official version of English national history, with its idealized tale of public-spirited reforms and liberal advances broadening down to the happy present."