In this episode, Dan Hugger speaks with Bradley J. Birzer, Russell Amos Kirk Chair in American Studies and professor of history at Hillsdale College, about Russell Kirk and the American conservative movement. What role did Kirk play in the conservative intellectual ferment of the early 1950s? How does the biographical framing of the Conservative Mind point to its humanistic nature? Who entered and left The Conservative Mind during its revisions? How did Kirk’s relationships and conflicts shape the evolution of his thought? Why did Kirk get involved with the Goldwater campaign and how did it affect his reputation? What is the political legacy of the conservative intellectual movement?

Russell Kirk: American Conservative | Bradley J. Birzer

Ten Conservative Principles | Russell Kirk

Individualism True And False | F.A. Hayek

Seven Conservative Minds| Bradley J. Birzer

The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot | Russell Kirk

The New Science of Politics: An Introduction | Eric Voegelin

Witness | Whittaker Chambers

The Genius of American Politics | Daniel J. Boorstin

Natural Right and History | Leo Strauss

The Quest for Community: A Study in the Ethics of Order and Freedom | Robert Nisbet

Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury

Plutarch's Lives, Vol. 1 (Modern Library Classics)

From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present—500 Years of Western Cultural Life | Jacques Barzun

Why I Am Not a Conservative | F.A. Hayek

The Imaginative Conservative

Lord Acton on Revolution | Russell Kirk

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