Russell Kirk Center

Throughout the semiquincentennial year celebrating America’s independence, @UBookman will invite a range of writers and speakers to contribute to a series drawing upon Russell Kirk’s work on the American Revolution and the constitutional order it secured.

We cannot read even a fragment of the published books in the world. And completion should never be our goal. Oftentimes re-reading is even more valuable than discovering newness. John C. “Chuck” Chalberg shares what he gleaned upon re-reading Norman Podhoretz's political memoir.

Chuck Chalberg reviews the recent the tribute and collection of essays "Fighting Enemies Foreign and Domestic: The Legacy of Angelo M. Codevilla" by Ryan P. Williams.

“Just Sentiments” is a collection of philosophical and political essays by Adam Smith and edited by Daniel B. Klein and @erikwmatson. Michael Munger reviews the collection, praising it as an accessible set of reflections especially for classroom settings.

"At a time of sensed radical discontinuity between modernity and past ages (what Jones named 'the Break'), Roman Catholicism seemed the sole unbroken, living link to Christ, the Apostles, and the Church Fathers."

"He usually writes, unfashionably, in rhyme and meter. He works in radiology, where 'reading' and 'scan' mean something quite different than they do in a poetry workshop."

We are pleased to share the @AcademicRenewal's launch of "From the Academy," a new quarterly digital magazine. Annette Kirk and her daughter, Andrea Kirk Assaf, contributed the foreword to the inaugural issue, and we commend it to you: buff.ly/3LgufQN

In his review of “Michelangelo and Titian”, Jesse Russell notes that Wallace challenges the easy narrative of rivalry and instead reveals a far more nuanced relationship between the two masters.

@ubookman @lsheahan "From those convictions arose protections for natural rights, tempered by the needs of circumstance." Read it all from @lsheahan: buff.ly/BpJFxbu

@ubookman @lsheahan The moral and political principles Americans defended in 1776 were already generations, even centuries, old. The moral principle of the dignity of man carried forward the convictions of the ancient Hebrews through the religious impulse of the Puritan settlers.

Throughout the semiquincentennial year celebrating America’s independence, @ubookman will invite a range of writers and speakers to contribute to a series drawing upon Russell Kirk’s work on the American Revolution and the constitutional order it secured.

On America is edited by Michael Lucchese, a talented writer, editor, and among the brightest students of Russell Kirk in his generation. You will not want to miss his substantial, elegant, and I think ground-breaking, introduction: buff.ly/YN16ImT

"For all the weight that Christianity and its paradoxes pull in the Western poetic tradition, you’d think that the theme of death and new life would be a rather tired one. And perhaps it is, at least in the work of more amateur poets than @pauljpastor." @SarahSoltis02

“Few outside of Tolkien’s most dedicated students, however, were aware that he had written an entire satirical story against the automobile.”

America includes Kirk’s insightful reflections on wise American statesmen from John Adams to Abraham Lincoln to (surprisingly) Eugene McCarthy, as well as his interpretations of great American writers from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Robert Frost to Mark Twain.

Kirk affirms that America is not simply an “experiment,” but a particular expression of the entire Western heritage. Our Founding should be understood as an essentially conservative act, and was therefore an achievement in which sober-minded Americans ought to take pride.

A Major New Kirk Book Announced and Available for Pre-Order How to Understand the Legacy of 1776: buff.ly/YN16ImT