The Russell Kirk Center

News and Events

The Spring 2007 issue of the University Bookman is almost here! Featuring reviews of books on religious freedom, British history, the fall of Rome, conservatism in France, Churchill, and the history of the “pulps,” this is an issue not to be missed! Don’t subscribe? You can join the oldest conservative quarterly review of books by clicking here.

New Books to Watch For: Several Kirk-related books will be published in 2007.

The Essential Russell Kirk: Selected Essays, edited and with introduction by George A. Panichas, will be available in January 2007 from ISI Books in both paper and cloth (ISBN 1933859016; Amazon link).

book cover image Gerald J. Russello’s The Postmodern Imagination of Russell Kirk, a fresh approach to Dr. Kirk’s thought driven by Kirk’s understanding of the imagination, will be released from University of Missouri Press in July 2007 (ISBN 978-0-8262-1720-2). Details available in their 2007 PDF catalog.

A new edition of Kirk’s gothic novel Old House of Fear will be published by Eerdmans in April 2007.

Nash Book Edition: Senior Fellow George H. Nash’s influential book, The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945, has been re-issued in a thirtieth anniversary edition by ISI Books with a new preface and epilogue (Amazon link).

New Burke Journal: Studies in Burke and His Time is now being published by the Edmund Burke Society in association with the Russell Kirk Center. It is an annual, edited by Joseph Pappin III.

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).

The cupola at Piety Hill, Mecosta, Michigan

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. Its programs and publications have a particular focus on moral imagination and right reason. They celebrate and defend the “permanent things”—all that makes human life worth living, particularly the bedrock principles that have traditionally supported and maintained the health of society’s central institutions: family, church, and school.

The Center’s efforts are directed at students, business and religious leaders, policy makers, and the general public. It identifies, educates, and mentors thoughtful men and women, and develops and promotes the writing of both established and emerging thinkers.

The Center also seeks to further these aims through cooperation with people and groups worldwide that are committed to revitalizing our common cultural inheritance.

To these ends the Center offers an unrivalled program of seminars and unique facilities for the support of undergraduate, graduate, and senior residential fellowships. It also has its own list of publications, which includes America’s oldest conservative quarterly review of books, The University Bookman.

We are grateful for your interest in the Russell Kirk Center and invite you to learn more about our mission and projects.