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The Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal celebrates and defends the Permanent Things. Coming soon: America's School of Conservative Studies.

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"What they really feel like are 'visits.' You go to a friend’s house, sit down in the kitchen, in the living room, or on the porch. Your friend pours you a cup of coffee (or tea or wine), and tells you a story, which reminds you of a story, and the visit begins."

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@Jacob__Siegel argues that modern democracies are sleepwalking into systems of surveillance in “The Information State: Politics in the Age of Total Control." Albert Norton Jr. reviews the convincing and alarming book.

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What guides the current lens of our view of colonialism? Is it logic, evidence and reason? Or is it mere blind hatred? Gene Callahan proposes the latter in his review of @NigelBiggar's new book "The New Dark Age: Why Liberals Must Win the Culture Wars."

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This year, we celebrate the Declaration of Independence. What exactly are we celebrating? Join us for a Book Gallery on 6/22 at 7pm ET with Michael Lucchese and @lsheahan as we discuss Kirk’s views on the American founding and the American order. Sign up: https://t.co/31Dkrnq9CC

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"If modern technology is making it increasingly possible to have the opportunities for leisure that Athenian citizens had, then there has never been a better time to rediscover this forgotten ideal."

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“Justice Barrett’s philosophy places her athwart the temporary majorities of our time. That place will often seem thankless, regardless of which politician she irks with her decisions. Yet she seems willing to take up that mantle to conserve our constitutional republic.”

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"To read a collection like this one is to be taught to feel deeply and pastorally. I have not felt the desire to weep when reading O’Connor’s stories, yet Cyr’s invite such emotion more readily from us." @NadyaWilliams81

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"Blair’s socio-religious commitments led him to envision a world not only where races and genders were equal, but where what he thought were archaic and barbaric practices like the death penalty were finally abolished." @IVMiles

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Taking Religion Seriously is a thoughtful, moving, and entertaining account of the author’s decades-long journey toward acceptance of religious faith, though the faith at which Murray arrives is decidedly not of the evangelical sort. As he notes several times, his “way of taking religion seriously” is “more arid than [he] would prefer." - Jeff Folks on @charlesmurray's TAKING RELIGION SERIOUSLY @encounterbooks

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"Justice Barrett’s philosophy places her athwart the temporary majorities of our time. That place will often seem thankless, regardless of which politician she irks with her decisions. Yet she seems willing to take up that mantle to conserve our constitutional republic. As Russell Kirk wrote in The Conservative Mind, 'In every period, some will endeavor to pull down the permanent things, and others will defend them manfully.'" James V.A. Dickey on Amy Coney Barrett's LISTENING TO THE LAW @KirkCenter @ubookman

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If you have never been to the Russell Kirk library in Mecosta and would like to attend a seminar, join us on Saturday, June 20th. The program runs from 10am to 5pm and includes a tour of the Kirk library and lunch: https://t.co/R1ZIXS80Em

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On Saturday, June 20, the Russell Kirk Center will host a day-long public seminar: “Knights, Heroes, and Patriots—Howard Pyle and the Shaping of the American Moral Imagination.” Register for the seminar at the Kirk Center here: https://t.co/R1ZIXS80Em

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In America's 250th year, it is especially fitting to revisit the work of one of our greatest artists. Pyle’s images and stories helped form among generations of Americans the moral imagination that Russell Kirk saw as essential to the transmission of our cultural inheritance.

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In "On America," a collection of hard to find essays, Kirk argues that the United States is not merely an “experiment,” but a distinctive expression of the Western tradition.

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Looking for a Father's Day gift full of historical wisdom and Kirkian perspective on the meaning of America?

Pick up your copy of "On America" here: https://t.co/cIaRSAwaHs

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What kind of union did the American Founders believe they were creating? Benjamin Clark explores that question in “Contending for American Nationhood,” examining Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story’s vision for a national common law in the early republic.

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On Piety Hill with @owroot

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“The result is less a polemic against the present than a gentle yet firm invitation to remember what we have nearly forgotten—that the good life is not a solitary pursuit of personal authenticity but a shared enterprise of commitment, sacrifice, and mutual regard.”

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Rachel Hadas explores memory, nostalgia, and the quiet rhythms of ordinary life in “Pastorals,” a collection that blurs the line between poetry, prose, and intimate reflection.

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The world needs less posturing and more honesty, and that's exactly what we're offered in @charlesmurray's "Taking Religion Seriously," reviewed by Jeffrey Folks.