Russell Kirk
  Dr. Kirk was one of this century's foremost men of letters. He was the founder of the conservative quarterlies Modern Age and The University Bookman. The Conservative Mind (Henry Regnery Company, 1953), Edmund Burke, The Roots of American Order, Enemies of the Permanent Things (Arlington House, 1969), and Eliot and His Age (Random House, 1971) are among his over thirty books.

ISI Books
Author of The Politics of Prudence
Author of Redeeming the Time
Author of Edmund Burke: A Genius Reconsidered
Author of The Essential Russell Kirk
Author of The American Cause
Contributor to Freedom and Virtue
Foreword to Visions of Order
Author of Eliot and His Age
Author of The Roots of American Order

Online Lectures
An Original Ghost Story
Burke and the American Revolution
Burke on Virtue
Centralization of Government II
Civilization without Religion
Davidson Against Leviathan
Decadence: Ancient and Modern
Donald Davidson and the Attack of the Violent
Fiction and the Armed Doctrine
Function and Nature of History
History and the Moral Imagination
Man of Letters
Our Classical Patrimony
Political Corruption and the Recovery of Virtue
Popular Government
Roman History -- Q&A
Roots of American Order
The Achievement of Eric Voegelin
The Enduring Influence of Irving Babbitt
The High Achievement of Christopher Dawson
The Idea of Order
The Moral Imagination & the Teaching of Virtue
The Promises & Perils of Christian Politics
The Purpose of a University
Transmitting the Western Heritage through Education

ISI Journals
The Soundness of Reinhold Niebuhr
Charles C. Brown, Niebuhr and His Age: Reinhold Niebuhr's Prophetic Role in the Twentieth Century; Charles C. Brown, A Reinhold Niebuhr Reader: Selected Essays, Articles, and Book Reviews

—Fall 1994, MA
Letters from Grub Street
Paul Mattheisen, Arthur C. Young, Pierre Coustillas, The Collected Letters of George Gissing, Volume Three, 1886-1888

—Summer 1993, MA
A Conscript in the Desert, Half a Century Ago
—Spring 1993, MA
Capitalism and the Moral Basis of Social Order
—Winter 1992, MA
The Quickening of Imagination
—Fall 1990, MA
Civilization without Religion?
—Summer 1990, MA
II. Will American Caesars Arise?
—Summer 1989, MA
Obdurate Adversaries of Modernity
—Summer/Fall 1987, MA
Edmund Burke and the Future of American Politics
—Spring 1987, MA
Why Edmund Burke is Studied
—Summer/Fall 1986, MA
Cultural Debris: A Mordant Last Word
—Fall 1994, IR
"A Revolution Not Made But Prevented"
—Fall 1985, MA
The Wise Men Know What Wicked Things Are Written on the Sky
—Spring 1985, MA
The Age of Sentiments
—Summer/Fall 1983, MA
The Marriage of Rights and Duties
—Spring 1992, IR
The Tension of Order and Freedom in the University
—Spring 1983, MA
Right Reason Does Not Pay
—Summer/Fall 1982, MA
The Living Edmund Burke
—Summer/Fall 1982, MA
Virtue: Can It Be Taught?
—Summer/Fall 1982, MA
The Architecture of Servitude and Boredom
—Spring 1982, MA
Libertarians: the Chirping Sectaries
—Fall 1981, MA
Three Pillars of Order: Edmund Burke, Samuel Johnson, Adam Smith
—Summer 1981, MA
Criminal Character and Mercy
—Fall 1980, MA
What Did Americans Inherit from the Ancients?
—Spring 1989, IR
The End of Learning
—Fall 1988, IR
Simplicity and Audacity in Reform: A Call for Reactionary Radicalism
—Summer 1979, MA
The Necessity of Dogmas in Schooling
—Winter 1978, MA
Enlivening the Conservative Mind
—Spring 1986, IR
Perishing for Want of Imagery
—Winter 1976, MA
Liberal Learning, Moral Worth, and Defecated Rationality
—Winter 1975, MA
Promises and Perils of “Christian Politics”
—Fall/Winter 1982, IR
Returning Humanity to History: The Example of John Lukacs
—Fall/Winter 1980, IR
Chesterton, Madmen, and Madhouses
—Winter 1971, MA
In God’s Own Good Time: Reflections Upon American Order
—Spring 1973, IR
The University and Revolution: An Insane Conjunction
—Winter 1969-70, IR
Decadence in the American University
—Spring 1969, IR
George Orwell’s Despair
—Fall 1968, IR
Comments on Zoll's "Social Thought of Russell Kirk"
—Fall, 1974, PSR
School Plant, or Culture?
—Fall 1959, MA
Humane Letters and the Clutch of Ideology
—Fall, 1973, PSR
Cultural Debris: Two Conferences and the Future of Our Civilization
—Spring 1958, MA
Drummond's The Kirk and the Continent
—Fall 1957, MA
The Treason of the Clerks
—Summer 1957, MA

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