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
Video recording of “Adapting The Conservative Mind for the Current Generation” panel discussion in Washington, D.C.
“Russell Kirk & Japan” talks by Professor Hiro Aida
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
Russell Kirk and Japan: Enamored by the Dead
“Kirk’s multifaceted persona, blending serious conservative thought with a penchant for the mysterious, underscores the complexity of his intellectual legacy, which I continue to try to unravel even today.”
Latest Pieces
Comments on Hiro Aida’s Speech on Russell Kirk and Japan
“But Kirk’s work and, more importantly, his approach remain eternally relevant, not just here in his home country, but as Hiro has shown, in countries and cultures very different from Kirk’s.”
Is Life Worth Living?
“Both on authority and through his own insights and experiences, Kirk had come to understand that there exists a realm of being beyond this temporal world and that a mysterious providence works in human affairs—that man is made for eternity. Such knowledge had been consolation and compensation for sorrow.”
Recovering the Person
“[Bailie] examines this impending, all-too-possible crisis facing Western societies by studying the construction, evolution, and coming apocalypse of the sovereign self.”
Contra Materialism and Gnosticism
“Jones argues that our elites, by which he means ‘the most influential people in the richest parts of the world,’ have undermined our flourishing as human beings, and that we must rediscover our true meaning and purpose if we wish to achieve real happiness.”
Justice and Morality in Smithian Liberalism
“…the value of this volume and Klein’s scholarship comes from how it deals with the moral, ethical, and epistemological dimensions of commercial society.”
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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