The Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal is a nonprofit educational organization based in
Mecosta, Michigan
Mecosta is a village in Mecosta County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 457 at the 2010 census. The village is within Morton Township. Mecosta Township, which is also in Mecosta county, is located several miles to the west.
Ge ...
. It was founded in order to continue the legacy of Dr.
Russell Kirk, an American political theorist, historian, social critic, literary critic, and fiction author. The Center is known for promoting
traditionalist conservatism and regularly publishing ''Studies in Burke and His Time'' and ''The University Bookman'', the oldest conservative book review in the United States.
''The University Bookman''
''The University Bookman'' was founded by Russell Kirk in 1960 as ''A Quarterly Review of Educational Materials''. It is the oldest continuously published right-leaning book journal in the United States. From 1960 to 1990, the journal was distributed freely to subscribers of ''
National Review''. For most of its history, the journal had been edited by members of the Kirk family, until 2005, when Gerald Russello was appointed editor.
Some of its notable contributors include
James Schall
James Vincent Schall (January 20, 1928 – April 17, 2019) was an American Jesuit Roman Catholic priest, teacher, writer, and philosopher. He was, most recently, Professor of Political Philosophy in the Department of Government at Georgetown Un ...
,
Peter Augustine Lawler,
Allan Carlson
Allan C. Carlson (born 1949 in Des Moines, Iowa) is a scholar and former professor of history at Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan. He is the President Emeritus of the Howard Center for Family, Religion and Society, former director of the ...
,
John Lukacs, and
George Nash.
Staff
The Russell Kirk Center's president is Annette Y. Kirk, widow of Russell Kirk; Jeffrey O. Nelson, Kirk's son-in-law, is director of publications. Senior Fellows at the Center include Ian Crowe,
Bruce Frohnen Bruce P. Frohnen is a Professor of Law at Ohio Northern University College of Law, where he teaches courses in Public and Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence, and Legal Profession.
Early life
He holds a J.D. from Emory University School of Law, where ...
,
Vigen Guroian Vigen Guroian (born 1948) is an Orthodox Christian theologian and professor who has written widely on ethics, politics, culture, literature, education, and gardening. He taught for many years at Loyola University Maryland, St. Nersess Armenian Semin ...
, George H. Nash, Marco Respinti, Jeffrey Polet, and
Gleaves Whitney Gleaves Whitney has been the executive director of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation since September 2020. Prior to that, he was the director of Grand Valley State University's Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies beginning in July 2 ...
. The Center's Board of Advisors includes
T. Kenneth Cribb, Jr.
Troy Kenneth "Ken" Cribb Jr. is a former presidential advisor to President Ronald Reagan.
Early life and education
Cribb was born August 7, 1948, in Spartanburg, South Carolina. His parents were T. Kenneth Cribb Sr. and Dicksie Brown Cribb. His f ...
,
John Engler,
Edwin J. Feulner
Edwin John Feulner Jr. (born August 12, 1941) is a former think tank executive who founded the conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation and served as its president from 1977 to 2013 and again from 2017 to 2018. Feulner's positions have in ...
, John Lukacs,
Forrest McDonald, and George H. Nash.
See also
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Manhattan Institute for Policy Research
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National Association of Scholars
The National Association of Scholars (NAS) is an American non-profit politically conservative advocacy organization, with a particular interest in education. It opposes a perceived political correctness on college campuses and supports a return ...
References
External links
Russell Kirk Center for Cultural RenewalThe University BookmanRussell Kirk, Man of Letters blog"Writings of Kirk and Buckley", broadcast from the Russell Kirk Center
from C-SPAN
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's ''American Writers
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