Russell Kirk
Too often, childhood hopes give way to adult complacency; but, just as often, "men and women are haunted by such nagging questions as 'What is this all about?' or 'Is life worth living?'" In this Epilogue to his remarkable third-person autobiography, Russell Kirk looks back on a long life of literary conflict and reflects on just what it might all be about.
Filed under Articles / Essays, Featured Essays · Tagged with Annette Y. Kirk, Aristophanes, Aristotle, Arthur Koestler, Book of Job, C.S. Lewis, Cecilia Kirk, Christopher Dawson, Count Jas Tarnowski, Daniel L. Garner, David Hume, decadence, Eric Voegelin, George MacDonald, Gregory the Great, Hans Christian Andersen, Irving Babbitt, J.R.R. Tolkien, Livy, Martin D'Arcy, Mircea Eliade, Permanent Things, Piety Hill, Russell Kirk, Stoicism, T.S. Eliot, William Shakespeare
Vigen Guroian
During a dinner conversation with Russell and Annette Kirk in Washington, D.C., just five months before Dr. Kirk’s death, Russell turned to me and quipped, with his familiar chuckle and impish smile, “Vigen, they are now calling me a theologian!” I did not ask him who was saying such a thing...
Filed under Articles / Essays, Featured Essays, Uncategorized · Tagged with Christian Humanism, Christopher Dawson, Edmund Burke, G.K. Chesterton, humanism, Irving Babbitt, John Dewey, John Henry Newman, literature, Orestes Brownson, Pico della Miranola, Richard Hooker, Russell Kirk, T.S. Eliot, theology, Vigen Guroian, William F. Buckley Jr.
Russell Kirk
For decades now, mainstream educators have been encouraging their pupils to use their imaginations - even as the literary fare they've been offering has increasingly had the opposite effect. Russell Kirk brings his characteristic perspicacity to bear on the question of literature and the "moral imagination" in a classic essay that has only grown more relevant since it first appeared in 1981.
