Russell Kirk (1918-1994), a “postmodern conservative”

Read a brief essay by Gerald Russello on the life and work of this political theorist and writer  at First Things: On the Square:

“As early as the 1950s, he had become convinced that liberalism would exhaust itself because it could not inspire and sustain what he called the ‘moral imagination.’ For conservatives to buy into its premises would seal their defeat. Something else would replace liberalism eventually, and Kirk offered a richly imaginative vision of conservatism that could survive liberal modernity’s collapse.”

Russello has written a bio on Kirk: The Postmodern Imagination of Russell Kirk.