Dr. Kirk died on this day, April 29, Saint Catherine of Sienna, in 1994. His biography is here at the Kirk Center's website.
Former Wilbur Fellow Wesley McDonald keeps a separate website, including links to Kirk's essays and lectures. Amazon's reviews of The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot are interesting (as is the book). Oddly enough, in 1954, both Time and The New York Times reviewed the book favorably. There are no conservative thinkers today with Kirk's imagination, wit, vision, broad reading, and humor, as this piece in the NYT discusses.
A search of this blog for Russell Kirk demonstrates how much he has influenced my thinking on everything from art to religion to liberty. Here is my first post when the blog began in 2005.
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Thanks for posting these links on one of the great thinkers of our time. Kirk influenced me in ways that are difficult for me to even number. The first law review article that I ever wrote owed a huge amount to his work on American constitutional theory and history. His approach to tradition and custom made me appreciate the common law method for its small-c conservative approach to law. His embrace of the humanities at a time when education became enamored of technique and technology stands as a beacon of hope for a more humane conception of virtue and learning and life. A great man, indeed.
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