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	Russell Kirk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Kirk is the only American to obtain the degree of doctor of letters from University of St. Andrews in Scotland; The Conservative Mind grew out of his dissertation.
		She and Kirk were known for their hospitality, welcoming many political, philosophical, and literary figures in their house (known as "Piety Hill"), and giving shelter to -- among others -- political refugees and hobos.
		Kirk was something of a modern-day Luddite: Piety Hill had no electricity until 1974, and he foresook cars (calling them "mechanical Jacobins"), televisions, and computers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Russell_Kirk (636 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Academic Freedom: An Essay in Definition, by Russell Kirk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		...Kirk based his defense of academic freedom on the concept of natural law just descri'bed we would have to agree with him that to deny the reality of natural law is to deny the reality of academic freedom...
		...Kirk tends to be a natural-law fundamentalist, believing, like the religious fundamentalist, that the whole of revelation is contained in the ancient documents, they tend to be committed to a belief in progressive revelation, a belief that we can discover more of nature's laws than our ancestors knew...
		...Kirk is aware that we have a system of educational pluralism in this country, and it is a tribute to the accuracy of his insight, if not to the consistency of his argument, that he is an ardent champion of such pluralism...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V20I1P95-1.htm (2361 words)

	russell kirk and the age of ideology by w. wesley mcdonald
		Russell Kirk, author of The Conservative Mind and A Program for Conservatives, has been regarded as one of the foremost figures of the post-World War II revival in conservative thought.
		Kirk played a pivotal role in drawing conservatism away from the laissez-faire principles of libertarianism and toward those of a traditional community grounded in a renewed appreciation of man's social and spiritual nature and the moral prerequisites of genuine liberty.
		Russell Kirk and the Age of Ideology is particularly relevant because of the growing interest in Kirk's legacy and the current debate over the meaning of conservatism.
	www.umsystem.edu /upress/spring2004/mcdonald.htm (385 words)

	Vdare.com: 11/04/04 - How Russell Kirk (And The Right) Went Wrong
		Decter once referred to Russell Kirk, the conservative man of letters who was a cofounder of the group and is still a venerable spiritual presence among its members, as an “anti-Semite.” Kirk had been indiscreet enough to joke about the neoconservatives’ Middle Eastern fixation.
		In Russell Kirk and the Age of Ideology, which Sam recognizes to be the most thorough defense of Kirk and his worldview to have appeared until now, Wes takes some truly daring positions.
		Although Kirk, unlike his opportunistic successors, was not a country club Republican or a neocon lackey, he was certainly not politically uninvolved.
	www.vdare.com /gottfried/041104_kirk.htm (1315 words)

	The Russell Kirk Center
		The volume features an essay on the Christian humanism of Russell Kirk and also includes essays on contemporary society, politics, literature, and ethics—with an overall theme of presenting a fresh vision of the human good in a time of metaphysical and moral bankruptcy resulting from an unthinking secularism.
		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 foundations—cultural, economic, and religious—of Western civilization and the American experience within it.
	www.kirkcenter.org (515 words)

	The Kirk Center - Biography of Russell Kirk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Kirk wrote and spoke on modern culture, political thought and practice, educational theory, literary criticism, ethical questions, and social themes.
		Kirk was born near the railroad yards at Plymouth, Michigan, in 1918 and lived much of his life at his ancestral place, Piety Hill, in Mecosta, Michigan—a little village in the stump-country.
		Annette Kirk was an active member of the National Commission on Excellence in Education and is now President of the Russell Kirk Center.
	www.kirkcenter.org /kirkbio.html (741 words)

	Russell Kirk's Conception of Decadence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Kirk saw the signs of decadence along another well-traveled byroad to Avernusthe erosion of civil society and its institutions.
		Kirk was much impressed by the analysis of the ancient writer Polybius, who attributed the decline of Greece in large measure to the decline of domestic society.
		As Kirk used to point out, it is of immense practical importance that groups of families join together in a cult, for only then will they share a moral code.
	www.libertyhaven.com /thinkers/pauljohnson/russell.shtml (2002 words)

	VDARE.com: Russell Kirk on Immigration, by W. Wesley McDonald
		Russell Kirk (1918-1994) was a champion of "The Permanent Things" throughout his long career as a leading light of the American conservative movement.
		Kirk’s tolerance of immigration reached its apex in 1989, when he wrote a high school economics textbook for the Educational Research Council of America.
		Kirk’s home, "Piety Hill," situated in the tiny village of Mecosta, Michigan, was a gathering place for refugees from communist totalitarianism and natural disasters.
	www.vdare.com /misc/mcdonald_041031_immigration.htm (1340 words)

	Russell Kirk's Economics of the Permanent Things (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		While Russell Kirk (1918-1994) is properly recognized for his role in reviving American conservative thought, his ruminations on economics have received little attention.
		Kirk insisted that economics cannot be separated from morals and character: "material prosperity depends upon moral convictions and moral dealings "- specifically, a high degree of honesty, industry, charity, and fortitude.
		Russell Kirk, The Sword of Imagination: Memoirs of a Half-Century of Literary Conflict (Grand Rapids, Mich.: William Eerdmans, 1995), p.
	www.libertyhaven.com /thinkers/russellkirk/russellkirk.html (2632 words)

	LewRockwell.com Blog: Russell Kirk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Kirk, whatever the flaws in his thinking, was a true conservative.
		I cannot imagine Kirk ever supporting neocon hallucinations or the attempt to impose the leftist pipe dream of democracy on parts of the world that have never known it.
		Of all of Kirk's writings, his fictional story, The Peculiar Demesne, perhaps illustrates the basis of what Kirk believed: that the source of all evil was what he called "the monstrous ego." That monstrous ego is the same that animates those who believe they can remake the world according to the confabulations in their heads.
	blog.lewrockwell.com /lewrw/archives/006552.html (140 words)

	Do Unto Others Project-Church of the Science of God
		Kirk was not a philosopher in the technical sense of that word (as he readily admitted), and therefore was not concerned in his work with the formal analysis of basic philosophical concepts.
		Kirk further recognized its importance to the revival of an enduring conservatism in an age of “Mass, Speed, and Whirl” when the very sources of imaginative inspiration were withering.
		Zoll, for example, expressed his uneasiness with Kirk’s natural law assertions by arguing that neither Kirk nor his mentor, Burke, were proponents “of an orthodox conception of natural law.” To deduce “a corpus of theological orthodoxy as a philosophical foundation” for their social and ethical positions would be unwarranted.
	www.dountoothers.org /russelkirk.html (4538 words)

	RUSSELL KIRK AND THE NEGATION OF IDEOLOGY by Scott P. Richert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It is, at once, both the greatest strength of Kirk’s intellectual vision and, as Thomas Fleming and Claes Ryn have each pointed out, potentially its greatest weakness, because it leads Kirk to a distrust of reason that, in the end, may have prevented him from approaching conservative thought in a properly philosophical cast of mind.
		As McDonald indicates, Kirk certainly understood that he was not writing systematic philosophy; at the same time, it would be unjust to imply that Kirk, had he set his mind to it, would have been incapable of philosophical reflection.
		While Kirk could be merely cordial in his correspondence or (as McDonald well knows) could delegate the duty of a reply to one of his assistants, almost all of his correspondence with Chronicles came from his own typewriter, and the tone is always very warm.
	www.chroniclesmagazine.org /Chronicles/July2004/0704Richert.html (2104 words)

	Works of Russell Kirk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Russell Kirk is best remembered as the author of the seminal study, The Conservative Mind, From Burke to Santayana, published in 1953.
		Kirk and his wife, Annette, would be among the first to take a public stand against the abortion-on-demand legislation in Michigan in 1972.
		Kirk’s writing style and his stories spring from an accomplished literary age, when appropriate consideration was given to language and “story,” not just character and plot.
	www.calitreview.com /Reviews/works_of_russell_kirk_030.htm (1295 words)

	PFM \| Ordered Liberty
		Kirk was convinced that “a divine intent rules society as well as conscience, forging an eternal chain of right and duty which links great and obscure, living and dead.
		Kirk sought to derive policies from the moral and religious wisdom of Western civilization—as opposed to the utopian schemes of coffee-house dreamers.
		Russell Kirk, “ Ten Conservative Principles,” 1993 (adapted from The Politics of Prudence).
	www.pfm.org /Content/ContentGroups/BreakPoint/BreakPoint_Commentaries/20031/October_2003/Ordered_Liberty.htm (687 words)

	Russell Kirk Web Site
		Russell Kirk (1918-1994) was the premier architect of the post World War II conservative intellectual revival.
		Kirk, is to identify, educate, and mentor thoughtful young men and women interested in Kirk's ideas and principles.
		Russell Kirk's Economics of the Permanent Things By the late John Attarian in The Freeman, a publication of The Foundation for Economic Education, Inc., April 1996, Vol.
	users.etown.edu /m/mcdonaldw/kirk.html (925 words)

	Sobran Column --- Remembering Russell Kirk
		When I last spoke to Kirk, near the end of his life, he had grown disgusted by what was then passing for conservatism.
		In 1985 Kirk made a speech to the Heritage Foundation, a leading conservative think tank, in which he quipped that the neoconservatives —; who were then attaching themselves to the conservative movement — seemed to think that the center of Western civilization was in Tel Aviv.
		This caused Midge Decter, the den mother of the neocons, to accuse Kirk of anti-Semitism.
	www.sobran.com /columns/2005/050908.shtml (737 words)

	A serious conservative grounded in 'first things' - The Washington Times: Non-Fiction Review - May 23, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		True, Russell Kirk may be largely forgotten by many of today's conservatives because, with few exceptions, he was not much interested in fashioning a programmatic conservatism.
		Indeed, as early as 1945 Kirk was anticipating where an egalitarian and utilitarian university system would end up: in the phony reforms of the early 1970s that still plague it.
		Above all, Russell Kirk helps us remember that conservatives without grounding in first things will become as dull and joyless as their utilitarian adversaries.
	www.washtimes.com /books/20040522-101227-8176r.htm (887 words)

	Russell Kirk
		To fully understand the importance of Russell Kirk, you must examine the history of the modern conservative movement – that is, since World War II.
		Kirk’s intellectual vigor, his sense of humor, and his friendly personality made him a unique teacher and source of inspiration for his students.
		Kirk’s repertoire of subjects was broad and comprehensive.
	www.heritage.org /Press/Commentary/ed030304a.cfm (606 words)

	The Chronicle: 5/7/2004: A Conservative of the Old School
		What Kirk extracted from Burke's thought -- and found embodied in the work of British and American figures as diverse as John Adams, Benjamin Disraeli, and T.S. Eliot -- was a strong sense that tradition and order were the bedrock of any political system able to provide a real measure of freedom.
		He recalls Kirk as a taciturn man of letters, living as a "Tory bohemian" in the small and out-of-the-way town of Mecosta, Mich. Students and admirers came to work with him.
		Kirk may still have readers and enthusiasts, but the scholarly task of sorting through his work and extending his ideas has scarcely begun.
	chronicle.com /free/v50/i35/35a01801.htm (2772 words)

	John J. Miller on Russell Kirk & Ghost Stories on National Review Online
		Kirk often talked about his brushes with revenants, and was convinced that his big house in Mecosta, Mich., was haunted.
		Kirk's most-influential book was The Conservative Mind, but his most popular one was a novel, The Old House of Fear.
		Kirk seemed to think that conservatives especially would appreciate ghostly fiction, given its requirement that readers acknowledge their inability to know all things — a foundational principle of modern conservatism.
	www.nationalreview.com /miller/miller012303.asp (897 words)

	The legacy of Russel Kirk by David Frum
		Kirk was then drafted and stationed in Utah; according to George Nash, author of The Conservative Intellectual Tradition in America Since 1945, Kirk cast his first presidential ballot for Norman Thomas in 1944, to reward the veteran socialist for his steadfast opposition to the Second World War.
		Kirk expressed his major ideas in highly general terms, and so it is hard to know exactly what these six canons imply, especially the final two.
		Kirk was writing in the aftermath of the forty most catastrophic years in the history of Western civilization, and at the beginning of another forty of the most tense and terrifying.
	www.newcriterion.com /archive/13/dec94/frum.htm (3199 words)

	The American Spectator
		Kirk's characters must cling to right choice to the very end, or leap for it, in the face of the capacity to do the reverse, and some fail horribly.
		Kirk was a Catholic and a conservative, and it is this difference that makes his fiction ultimately superior.
		Kirk's stories qualify as literature on other grounds, starting with being literate; it helps to know who Setebos was, and the woman of Endor, and what the Lex Talionis might be.
	www.spectator.org /dsp_article.asp?art_id=8533 (748 words)

	Conservative Book Club: Russell Kirk and the Age of Ideology by Wesley W. McDonald
		Numerous conservatives today acknowledge an intellectual debt to Russell Kirk, who may be the foremost influence on the substance and direction of modern American conservatism.
		He demonstrates that Kirk played a pivotal role in drawing conservatism away from the laissez-faire principles of libertarianism, and toward those of a traditional community -- grounded in a renewed appreciation of man's social and spiritual nature and the moral prerequisites of genuine liberty.
		McDonald shows how this became for Kirk the basis of a ringing defense of moral and social norms that must not be subject to whim or fashion.
	www.conservativebookclub.com /products/bookpage.asp?prod_cd=c6395 (731 words)

	Life with Russell Kirk
		Unlike most of the young men I knew, Russell enjoyed discussing the essential questions in which I was interested -- questions such as the metaphysical understanding of "being," the proofs for the existence of God, and the meaning and purpose of life.
		Russell's emphasis on things of the heart and the hearth became more evident after we were married and began to have daughters.
		Russell wrote his best and, to my mind, most beautiful short story about Clinton and called it "A Long, Long Trail A-Winding." In it, the main character, Frank Sarsfield, patterned after Clinton, dies in a snowstorm.
	www.heritage.org /Research/PoliticalPhilosophy/HL547.cfm (3673 words)

	Amazon.com: The Politics of Prudence: Books: Russell Kirk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Russell Kirk (1918-1994) was a dominant figure in the post-World War II revival of Conservative thought.
		And yet Kirk claims to be complimenting them when he writes, "How skillfully they insinuated themselves into the councils of the Nixon and Reagan administrations!" Perhaps the clue to Kirk's misgivings can be found in his reference to neoconservatives as "Manhattan allies" and his denigration of Israel.
		Kirk writes an obituary for the so called neoconservatives, though this maybe wishful thinking at best, since unfortunately the late Russell Kirk is dead, and well the neocons have taken over the conservative movement.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1882926005?v=glance (2264 words)

	Flashback on Russell Kirk on National Review Online
		Although Russell was only a few years older, at 28 I felt that an entire world lay between us, the wide gulf between his learning, and my own.
		I was so elated by his spontaneous and generous willingness to associate his august name with that of a wizened ex-schoolboy known mostly for an iconoclastic screed directed at his alma mater, that I took to ordering more Tom Collinese, but in every case, one for each of us.
		In the ensuing 14 years Russell Kirk wrote many books and a hundred essays, gave a thousand speeches, and influenced the lives of another half-generation.
	www.nationalreview.com /flashback/1994200510060740.asp (813 words)

	Humanitas: Russell Kirk and the Prospects for Conservatism.@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Russell Kirk (1918-1994) is widely regarded as one of the architects of the postwar conservative intellectual revival.
		The publication, in 1953, of his The Conservative Mind, a monumental 450-page history of conservative ideas from Edmund Burke to T. Eliot, dramatically shaped a nascent conservative intellectual movement then struggling for survival.
		Kirk's rediscovery and articulation of a viable conservative tradition in the English-speaking world including the United States, during a period when the dominant ideological currents were markedly different, helped legitimize a...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:67413143&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (195 words)

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