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Guardian of the Permanent Things: An Appreciation of Russell Kirk |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / ESSAYS |
| Author: Lee Edwards |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 10/1/1994 |
| Size: 2,375 Words, 14,953 Characters |
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Although he constantly lauded the British parliamentarian Edmund Burke, called T.S. Eliot "the greatest man of letters of this century," and was proud of his Scottish heritage (and his doctorate from the University of Saint Andrews), Russell Kirk was, first and foremost, an American proud of his Middle West roots. He was born and raised in the small railroad town of Plymouth, Michigan, took his B.A. at Michigan State College (now Michigan State University), and died last May at the age of seventy-five in his ancestral home, Piety Hill, in Mecosta in Michigan's upstate "stump country."
Best known as a man of ideas and letters--founding editor of Modern Age and The University Bookman, writer of the "From the Academy" column for National Review for more than two decades, nationally synd...
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...fore there was National Review, there was Bill Buckley. Will did not go far enough. Before there was Bill Buckley, there was Russell Kirk, who understood full well that ideas, as Reagan once remarked, "truly rule our world." Kirk and his works will endure because they are filled with the ideas--and the virtues of courage, prudence, temperance, and justice--that the world must have to endure.
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