2.) Russell Kirk, in the 20th century, would become the forebear to America’s specific brand of traditional conservatism. Drawing upon reason, revelation, and conservative thought going back to Burke, Kirk’s The Conservative Mind would provide a primer of right-wing thought for the American conservative movement. As William Buckley, Jr. said “It is inconceivable even to imagine, let alone hope for, a dominant conservative movement in America without Kirk’s labors.”
Tags: Edmund Burke, Ideas Have Consequences, listicle, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Richard Weaver, Robert Bork, Robert Nisbet, Russell Kirk, Slouching Towards Gomorrah, The Conservative Mind, The Quest for Community
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