Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal
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The Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal is a nonprofit educational organization based out of Mecosta, Michigan
. 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
.
The Russell Kirk Center has an affiliate, the Edmund Burke Society of America and is the publisher of Studies in Burke and His Time and The University Bookman, the oldest conservative book review in the United States.
The Russell Kirk Center's President is Annette Y. Kirk, widow of Russell Kirk
.
Dr. Jeffrey O. Nelson, Kirk's son-in-law, is Director of Publications.
Senior Fellows at the Center include Dr. Ian Crowe, Dr. Bruce Frohnen
, Dr. Vigen Guroian, Dr. George H. Nash, Marco Respinti, and Gleaves Whitney
.
The Center's Board of Advisors include T. Kenneth Cribb, Jr., John Engler
, Edwin J. Feulner, Dr. John Lukacs
, Dr. Forrest McDonald
, and Dr. George H. Nash.
Mecosta, Michigan
Mecosta is a village in Mecosta County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 440 at the 2000 census. The village is within Morton Township...
. It was founded in order to continue the legacy of Dr. Russell Kirk
Russell Kirk
Russell Kirk was an American political theorist, moralist, historian, social critic, literary critic, and fiction author known for his influence on 20th century American conservatism. His 1953 book, The Conservative Mind, gave shape to the amorphous post–World War II conservative movement...
, an American political theorist, historian, social critic, literary critic, and fiction author. The Center is known for promoting traditionalist conservatism
Traditionalist Conservatism
Traditionalist conservatism, also known as "traditional conservatism," "traditionalism," "Burkean conservatism", "classical conservatism" and , "Toryism", describes a political philosophy emphasizing the need for the principles of natural law and transcendent moral order, tradition, hierarchy and...
.
The Russell Kirk Center has an affiliate, the Edmund Burke Society of America and is the publisher of Studies in Burke and His Time and The University Bookman, the oldest conservative book review in the United States.
The Russell Kirk Center's President is Annette Y. Kirk, widow of Russell Kirk
Russell Kirk
Russell Kirk was an American political theorist, moralist, historian, social critic, literary critic, and fiction author known for his influence on 20th century American conservatism. His 1953 book, The Conservative Mind, gave shape to the amorphous post–World War II conservative movement...
.
Dr. Jeffrey O. Nelson, Kirk's son-in-law, is Director of Publications.
Senior Fellows at the Center include Dr. Ian Crowe, Dr. Bruce Frohnen
Bruce Frohnen
Bruce P. Frohnen is an Associate Professor of Law at Ohio Northern University, Pettit College of Law. Prior to this he taught at Ave Maria School of Law in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In addition he is a Senior Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal....
, Dr. Vigen Guroian, Dr. George H. Nash, Marco Respinti, and Gleaves Whitney
Gleaves Whitney
Gleaves Whitney is the director of Grand Valley State University's Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies. He has authored or edited 14 books. Whitney is also a senior scholar at the Center for the American Idea in Houston, Texas, and he is the first senior fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for...
.
The Center's Board of Advisors include T. Kenneth Cribb, Jr., John Engler
John Engler
John Mathias Engler is an American politician and a member of the Republican Party. He served as the 46th Governor of Michigan from 1991 to 2003....
, Edwin J. Feulner, Dr. John Lukacs
John Lukacs
John Adalbert Lukacs is a Hungarian-born American historian who has written more than thirty books, including Five Days in London, May 1940 and A New Republic...
, Dr. Forrest McDonald
Forrest McDonald
Forrest McDonald , is an American historian who has written extensively on the early national period, on republicanism, and on the presidency. He is widely considered one of the foremost historians of the Constitution and of the early national period.- Life :McDonald was born in Orange, Texas. He...
, and Dr. George H. Nash.