About Us
A Message from the President, Annette Y. Kirk
Welcome
to the website of the Russell Kirk Center.
We hope that visitors to this site will be inspired to discover
more about the life and thought of Russell
Kirk and about the work of the Center that carries forward his
legacy today. Russell believed deeply that civilization can only
thrive when there is, in the words of Edmund Burke, a partnership
of “those who are living, those who are dead, and those who
are yet to be born.”
Russell saw his mission as conveying to Americas rising generations
an understanding of the process by which a healthy culture is transmitted
from age to age. Today, this mission is continued in the work of
the Russell Kirk Center, which promotes, through its publications,
seminars, and fellowships,
an appreciation of the permanent things that maintain
and nurture our civil social order.
A culture is perennially in need of renewal. A culture
does not survive and prosper merely by being taken for granted; active defense
is always required,
and imaginative growth, too."
—Russell Kirk
You will find on this website information about Russells
life and writings and about the
various projects that we administer here at the Center. There are
links that will enable you to find and purchase books by Russell
Kirk, subscribe to the Centers publications, and learn more
about our academic programs.
If you would like to support us in our work of intellectual and
cultural renewal, please contact us
for information on how to make a donation
to the Center.
Sincerely,
Annette Y. Kirk
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