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In the following review, Chalmers attests Kirk's The Conservative Mind as an effective aid to understanding and countering Soviet intentions during the Cold War.
The author of The Conservative ...
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In the following essay, Frohnen reexamines what Kirk meant by “conservatism” and applies his conclusion to the economic policies and events of the 1990s, especially as they were affected...
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In the following essay, Buckley laments the passing of his friend and longtime National Review columnist, relating some personal anecdotes and saluting Kirk's accomplishment as a writer.
In the...
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In the following essay, Champ examines and praises Kirk's novels and short stories, tracing their origins and purposes.
Long before I became aware of Russell Kirk as the author of The Conservat...
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In the following essay, Henrie offers a ruminative examination of Kirk's intent and accomplishment as an historian, drawing primarily upon The Roots of American Order and America's Briti...
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In the following essay, Frum distinguishes Kirk as one of the great political voices of the 1950s and 1960s.
Russell Kirk, who died this spring at his home in Mecosta, Michigan, at the age of seventy-...
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In the following review, Genovese favorably reviews Kirk's memoir, The Sword of Imagination: Memoirs of a Half-Century of Literary Conflict.
When Russell Kirk died last year at the age of 76, A...
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In the following essay, Tonsor credits The Conservative Mind with igniting and legitimizing contemporary conservatism.
New eras, whether in religion, science, or politics, usually begin with a book. W...
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In the following essay, Bliese depicts Kirk as a conservationist and compares him with other conservative figures for whom care for the environment figures prominently, such as Richard M. Weaver and W...
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In the following essay, Regnery reminisces about the events that contributed to Kirk's political, moral, and social views.
The publication of Russell Kirk's memoirs, The Sword of Imagina...
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In the following essay, Russello examines Kirk's theories of jurisprudence.
“Juris praecepta sunt haec, honeste vivere, alterum non laedere, suum cuique tribuere.”1
The works of ...
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In the following review, Gay defends liberal politics as humane while attacking Kirk's brand of conservatism as flawed ideology.
When Lionel Trilling published The Liberal Imagination in 1950 h...
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In the following essay, Attarian discusses Kirk's economic theories and examines the influence of Kirk's Christian faith upon those theories.
As American conservatism sifts its soul rega...
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In the following essay, Newman examines the theme of Christian pilgrimage as it appears in Kirk's ghostly fiction.
For Russell Kirk ghost stories were not mere exercises in gore or terror witho...
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In the following essays, Person discusses Kirk's short stories and novels, tracing the extent and manner in which they are permeated with the author's moral vision and elements of Christ...
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In the following essay, originally published in 1953, Ransom categorizes Kirk as a religious humanist before finding that Kirk's and other conservatives' attitudes are impractical for th...
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In the following review, Cheney reviews The Conservative Mind and takes serious issue with arguments advanced by John Crowe Ransom in his own review of the work published a few months earlier in The K...
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In the following review of Kirk's Eliot and His Age, Scott-Moncrieff—a longtime friend of Kirk—favorably assesses the work's scholarly intent and accomplishment.
Dr. Kirk m...
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In the following essay, Zoll presents an overview of Kirk's conservative writings, concluding that Kirk is a neo-Platonist who balances his Roman Catholic faith with conservative social beliefs...
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In the following review, Robson examines the shared conservative philosophies of T. S. Eliot and Kirk, comparing it with several other contemporary books on Eliot, finding much to commend in Kirk but ...
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In the following essay, East examines the manner in which matters of the spirit, specifically Christian humanism, inform Kirk's political theory.
Born on October 19, 1918, in Plymouth, Michigan...
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In the following essay, originally published in 1985, Herron examines the elements of Gothic horror in Kirk's fiction, noting Kirk's skill at grappling with serious themes in both his fi...
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Critical Review by Gordon Keith Chalmers
