Bruce P. Frohnen

Bruce P. Frohnen is a Senior Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal.

Bruce Frohnen

He is Associate Professor of Law at Ohio Northern University College of Law and Editor of the Political Science Reviewer.

Dr. Frohnen holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University and a J.D. from Emory University School of Law. A former Visiting Scholar with the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, he also served for more than five years as Legislative Aide and Speech Writer to United States Senator Spencer Abraham (R-MI). He is the author of Virtue and the Promise of Conservatism: The Legacy of Burke and Tocqueville and The New Communitarians and the Crisis of Modern Liberalism. His volume, American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia (edited with Jeremy Beer and Jeffrey O. Nelson) was the subject of a front-page article in the New York Times. Among the other volumes he has edited or co-edited are The American Republic: Primary Sources, Rethinking Rights: Historical, Political, and Philosophical Perspectives (with Kenneth L. Grasso), and Community and Tradition: Conservative Perspectives on the American Experience (with George W. Carey).

Dr. Frohnen has published numerous articles and essays in journals including the George Washington Law Review, the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, the American Journal of Jurisprudence, and The Good Society. He serves as Associate Editor of Studies in Burke and His Time and on the editorial board of The University Bookman. He lives in Canton, Michigan, with his wife and two children.

The ... conservative is concerned, first of all, for the regeneration of spirit and character—with the perennial problem of the inner order of the soul, the restoration of the ethical understanding, and the religious sanction upon which any life worth living is founded. This is conservatism at its highest.

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Fall Newsletter

The latest number of the Russell Kirk Center newsletter (Fall 2011) has just been posted. It features a profile of the new complete Kirk Bibliography, compiled by our archivist, Charles C. Brown. It also includes an interview with Márcia Xavier de Brito, who is translating many works of Kirk into Portuguese. You can download it, and past issues, here.

Jan 2012

Passages: Meijer

We are deeply sorry to learn of the death of Fred Meijer. Meijer was a philanthropist par excellence and beloved by all in Michigan who knew him. Readers interested in his life and legacy may be interested to see Jim Person’s review of his biography published in the University Bookman last year.

Dec 2011

Passages: Hoeflich

Annette Kirk and Jeffrey O. Nelson both contributed tributes to a memorial page for Mr. Charles H. Hoeflich (1914–2011), a long-time friend and financial supporter of the Kirk Center who died recently. The Kirk Center is deeply grateful for his support and commemorates a long and fruitful life.

Dec 2011

Kirk Audio at ISI

We commend to your attention the John M. Olin Online Lecture Library at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, which hosts several lectures about Russell Kirk and his influence by scholars including Ted McAlister, Michael P. Federici, W. Wesley McDonald, George H. Nash, Gleaves Whitney, and Allan C. Carlson. It also hosts more than twenty-five audio lectures by Russell Kirk.

Dec 2011