Welcome Home to the Russell Kirk Center
Strengthening America’s Tradition of Order, Justice & Freedom
The Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal aims to recover, conserve, and enliven those enduring norms and principles that Russell Kirk (1918–1994) called the Permanent Things. Explore the Center’s programs, publications, and fellowships and join with us to continue Kirk’s work to renew our culture and redeem our time.
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At the Kirk Center
Highlights
Remembering Russell Kirk on the 30th Anniversary of his Passing
“Russell Kirk & Japan” talks by Professor Hiro Aida
Video recording of “Adapting The Conservative Mind for the Current Generation” panel discussion in Washington, D.C.
Classic Kirk: “Renewing the Moral Order in American Society”
Events
April 11 – 14 | “Literature and the Moral Imagination” Seminar
Hillsdale College Students, the Russell Kirk Center, Mecosta, MI
May 19 – 20 | “Sir Roger Scruton & America” Conference
Washington, D.C. More information and registration is available here.
On Campus
Explore Kirk On Campus
Russell Kirk understood his work was to convey to America’s rising generations an understanding of the process by which a healthy culture is transmitted from age to age.
We’re continuing this important work through Kirk on Campus as we host conversations about the permanent things on campuses across Michigan. We hope you’ll join us at an event, and help us prepare tomorrow’s leaders with an appreciation of the richness of the conservative intellectual tradition.
From the University Bookman
A Gentleman Out of Moscow
“Maddocks is an able guide as she wanders through the adventures, disappointments, and adjustments that Rachmaninoff would experience from his escape in 1917 to his death in 1943.”
Latest Pieces
Taking the Road Less Traveled
“Rattelle’s lyrical poems… echo Frost both in obvious ways and in their inventiveness within the constraints of form.”
To Recover Is to Return
“The decline [Esolen] has diagnosed is not merely a shift in cultural tastes or even a change in values; it is a near total loss of what it means to be human.
Gerald Russello and the Art of Memory
This essay was delivered as a memorial lecture at Fordham University, New York, on November 15, 2023.
Claiming the Classical Tradition
“The book stands as a powerful argument that the Classical Tradition has been essential to the lived Black experience in the United States for four centuries. And consequently, the book asserts that any attempts to deny such a connection severs Black Americans from a heritage to which they owe much and from which they will find a treasure trove of wisdom.”
The Definitive Guide to the Irish in the Modern World
“Connolly has written the definitive study of Irish immigration throughout the world.”
About the Bookman
For six decades, the University Bookman, founded by Russell Kirk, has identified and discussed those books that diagnose the modern age and support the renewal of culture and the common good. Currently published online, the Bookman continues its mission of examining our times in light of the Permanent Things that make us human.
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