Russell Kirk on Higher Education
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James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^
| January 8, 2020 | Allen Mendenhall
Russell Kirk isn’t known as a policy wonk. The
Great Books, not the mathematical or statistical models of economic technicians, were his organon of choice. He devoted essays to broad, perennial themes like “the moral imagination,” “liberal learning,” and “the permanent things.” Read his numerous columns about higher education, however, and you might come away with a different impression, one of Kirk as a political strategist with a strong grasp of educational policy. Kirk wrote on a wide variety of issues involving higher education: accreditation, academic freedom, tenure, curriculum, vocational training, community colleges, adult education, college presidents, textbooks, fraternities and...
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Russell Kirk as a Political Theorist
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The Imaginative Conservative ^
| 11/1/12 | John East
In Kirk's view the main Roots of modern political theory are found in the spirit of the Renaissance and in the mind of the Enlightenment. He connects the former with "the theological and moral confusion from which our society has suffered since the sixteenth century."[7] More
specifically, Kirk explains, "In some ages - the period we call the Renaissance conspicuous among these - the overweening ego claims too much."[8] The problem is essentially one of pride, the most ancient and cardinal of vices and evils: "Man was only a little lower than the angels...having it within his power to become...
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The 10 Conservative Principles of Russell Kirk
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The Heritage Foundation ^
| 3/20/1986 | Russell Kirk
Russell Kirk was a prolific author, essayist, lecturer, and critic best known for The Conservative Mind (1953). Kirk
made conservatism intellectually respectable in the modern era and christened the conservative movement with its name. In the following speech, delivered at the Heritage Foundation in 1987, Kirk enumerates ten principles of conservatism. The list, which he did not intend to be exhaustive, emphasizes an attitude—not a “fixed doctrineâ€â€”toward tradition, private institutions, and prudence which he calls “the negation of ideology.â€
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The Ten Conservative Principles of Russell Kirk
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Heritage ^
| March 20, 1986 | Russell Kirk
Russell Kirk was a prolific author, essayist, lecturer, and critic best known for The Conservative Mind (1953). Kirk
made conservatism intellectually respectable in the modern era and christened the conservative movement with its name. In the following speech, delivered at the Heritage Foundation in 1987, Kirk enumerates ten principles of conservatism. The list, which he did not intend to be exhaustive, emphasizes an attitude—not a “fixed doctrineâ€â€”toward tradition, private institutions, and prudence which he calls “the negation of ideology.â€
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The Ten Conservative Principles (by Russell Kirk, 1986)
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The Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal ^
| 1986 | Russell Kirk
Being neither a religion nor an ideology, the body of opinion termed conservatism possesses no Holy Writ and no Das Kapital to provide dogmata. So
far as it is possible to determine what conservatives believe, the first principles of the conservative persuasion are derived from what leading conservative writers and public men have professed during the past two centuries. After some introductory remarks on this general theme, I will proceed to list ten such conservative principles. Perhaps it would be well, most of the time, to use this word “conservative” as an adjective chiefly. For there exists no Model Conservative,...
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Conserving Order, Justice, and Freedom [Russell Kirk]
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The Russell Kirk Center | Classic Kirk: a curated selection of Russell Kirk’s perennial essays ^
| Russell Kirk
The Constitution of the United States was and is rooted in the experience and the thought of earlier times—which is a major reason why the American Constitution has not perished or been supplanted by some different political system. No
civilization could survive for a great while if somehow its political constitution should be swept away and no tolerable new constitution substituted. Deeply rooted, like some immense tree, the American Constitution grew out of a century and a half of civil social order in North America and more than seven centuries of British experience...The aim of a good constitution is to...
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RIP Wesley McDonald, scholar on Russell Kirk and Conservatism
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Accuracy in Academia ^
| September 25, 2014 | Fran Griffin
Wesley McDonald, a professor of Political Science at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania, an author, and a leading authority on the scholar, Russell Kirk, died on September 9 at John Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore, after a brief illness. He
was 68. For 34 years, he had been a Professor of Political Science at Elizabethtown College. Students and colleagues at the college describe him as a talented and passionate teacher, a spirited defender of conservative thought, and a loyal friend and mentor whose encouragement brought out the best in each person. Carl J. Strikwerda, Ph.D., President of Elizabethtown College, said: “Wes...
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Russell Kirk Warned That Without Virtue, ‘Democracy’ Is A Dead End Here And Abroad
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PatriotandLiberty ^
| 1/24 | Paul Krause
Kirk understood conservatism to be “a disposition of character rather than a collection of reified, abstract political doctrines. It
is the rejection of ideology rather than the exercise of it.” This, too, is the understanding of conservatism laid out by the champion of conservatism in the 21st century, my former teacher Sir Roger Scruton.This understanding may help one realize why conservatism fails as an ideology — because it is not an ideology. As Kirk humorously notes early on in one of the early chapters of this book, conservatives who attempt to ideologize conservatism make the first and most egregious error...
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Russell & RFK Jr | FAUCI, CIA Secrets & Running For President - #128 - Stay Free With Russell Brand
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Rumble ^
| May 12, 12:00 pm EDT | Russel Brand & Robert F Kennedy, Jr.
Russell’s big conversation this week is with presidential candidate in 2024, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Together, they delve into some of the most controversial topics of our time, including the assassination of JFK, the true nature of the pandemic, and the war in Ukraine. Whether you're a political junkie or simply interested
in learning more about the issues shaping our world, this conversation is a must-listen! Watch the full conversation over on LOCALS > https://bit.ly/russellbrand-Robert-f-ken For a bit more from us join our Stay Free Community here:https://russellbrand.locals.com/ Come to my festival COMMUNITY - https://www.russellbrand.com/community-2 NEW MERCH! https://stuff.russellbrand.com/ Subscribe to my...
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Are you happy now, Libertarians?
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American Thinker ^
| 21 April 2023 | James L. Swofford
*snip* ... What the Libertarian Party accomplished in 2020 was giving us government vaccine mandates, growing foreign entanglements in a regional European war, huge government deficits, and growing inflation. How
did the Libertarian party accomplish this? In three states — Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin — the Libertarian vote total was 4.9, 5.3, and 1.9, respectively, times the Democrat margin in those states. *snip*Had President Trump won those three states, he would have won 37 more electoral votes for a total of 269. Barring faithless electors, the Electoral College would have ended up tied at 269 electoral votes for each candidate,...
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Libertarians who aren’t
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Canada Free Press ^
| 08/05/16 | Matthew Vadum
Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson and his veep, former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld There are small-L libertarians who believe in liberty and then there are big-L libertarians, also known as Libertarians, who believe in the Libertarian Party. The Libertarian Party presidential ticket this year consists of two former Republicans, former New
Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson and his veep, former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld.
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When Libertarians Went Off the Rails
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The Mad Monarchist | 08-16-2016 | TMM
When Libertarians Went Off the Rails I have written about the Libertarians before, relating some of the ways I agree and disagree with them but this political season I have had to burn some bridges with the Libertarians or, at least, the “official” established Libertarian powerhouses of this country such as the
Libertarian Party and Reason Magazine. However, while some of my previous problems with libertarianism remain, this time something has changed and that is that the mainstream American Libertarians seem to have gone so far into the weeds of “principle” that they have largely abandoned what they were supposed...
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Libertarians Unite! -- Behind Trump, That Is
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American Thinker.com ^
| September 9, 2020 | James Soriano
Outside the earshot of the news outlets and slipping through the data gathered by the pollsters, millions of conversations are taking place in America today that have the general form of: “I don’t like his tweets but he’s done some good things” or “I don’t like Trump but the other side seems
to be encouraging the rioters.” If you’re like me, you’ve had a conversation like this recently and you probably know other people who have also had the same. This is the so-called “hidden support” hypothesis, the idea that there are many voters out there who secretly support Trump...
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Real Libertarians Don’t Indocrinate
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Accuracy in Academia ^
| June 28, 2017 | Alex Nitzberg
As a teacher, George Mason University economist Walter Williams explained: "I think it's academic dishonesty to use one's classroom to proselytize students, that is…to give students your opinion, and I think it’s dishonest in the sense that it takes advantage of the immature minds of young people who have not gained the
maturity and the experience to be able to individually assess things and to come to their own conclusions." He said that at the orientation for his undergraduate and Ph.D. class, he informs the pupils that if he utters an opinion without the preface "In my opinion," they should...
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Libertarians for Forced Vaccinations?
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Foundation for Economic Education ^
| March 26, 2019 | Bretigne Shaffer
There has, historically, been a widely held and asserted expectation of quarantine in the case of exceptionally dangerous illnesses. However,
this is not at all what the proponents of mandated vaccines are calling for. Quarantine is simply the demand that those who are already infected with a disease remain isolated in their homes or elsewhere until they are no longer able to infect others. This is profoundly different from what the pro-mandate crowd demands: that those who are not infected undergo a medical procedure to minimize their chances of becoming infected. This is a much more intrusive demand and a...
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Dehumanization of Libertarians and Conservatives
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The most effective dehumanization campaign since that against Americans of Japanese decent during WWII is the campaign to dehumanize Conservatives and Libertarians and is now fully engaged with FOX News joining the ranks of the progressive media. Twelve
years ago after the election Barak Obama with the most progressive administration in United States history, the Tea Party entered the battle ground of political debate. This is when the AT&T and Comcast networks began the campaign to dehumanize Conservatives and Libertarians with accusations of evil and racism. This dehumanizing campaign was directed against members of the Tea Party the most unassuming...
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Taj Mahal song for libertarians
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You Tube, song Ain't Nobody's business but my own ^
| 7/25/11 | Taj Mahal
One of my favorite blues singers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBGbrFlW
"Cake walk into town" This one is good too.
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Libertarians elected Biden
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©2021 CAPITOL HILL PUBLISHING CORP., A SUBSIDIARY OF NEWS COMMUNICATIONS, INC. ^
| 04/28/21 11:30 AM EDT | BY J.T. YOUNG, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR —
If libertarians had voted for then-President Trump last year, he would have won. As
close as the 2020 election was, it could have been a lot closer and far more complex — and its outcome reversed. Libertarian voters could have flipped the three closest states and sent the outcome in favor of the House of Representatives and Trump’s reelection bid. Jo Jorgensen, the Libertarian Party candidate from South Carolina, won 1,865,724 votes, just 1.18 percent of the total votes cast. Her campaign received minimal attention and her vote total seems equally insignificant, until its huge impact in Biden’s three closest...
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Where Do the Libertarians Stand on Marriage?
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American Thinker ^
| 07/28/2018 | Trevor Thomas
John Stossel’s recent column, “Dads Needed,†contains some timely, important, but well-known -- at least within the Christian conservative community -- truths. Much
of the column focuses on the work of author, speaker, and former feminist, Warren Ferrell -- especially Ferrell’s new book The Boy Crisis. As Mr. Stossel explains, In “The Boy Crisis,†Farrell notes that dads routinely get passed over when it comes to custody of kids, even though kids benefit enormously if they have male role models. Boys without fathers suffer more, he says. Why does a same-sex role model matter more for boys? “Boys tend...
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Huckabee’s Candidacy Could Mean Showdown with Libertarians
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The Blaze ^
| May 4, 2015 | Fred Lucas
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee will be entering a very different Republican primary field when he announces his candidacy Tuesday, one that will likely bring up the debate over where libertarians stand in the Republican party, while also facing more competition for social conservative voters than eight years ago. “Huckabee
does have name recognition having been on Fox News all this time,” Tim Hagle, a political science professor at the University of Iowa, told TheBlaze. “At the same time, after he won the caucuses here in 2008, there was a lot of concern that he wasn’t as conservative as some...
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