Morning from southcentral michigan, made the journey, and is here to talk about his book about russell kirk. One of the first questions for lots of people is who is russell kirk . The man undoubtedly cast a very large shadow over american political and intellectual thought in the latter half of the 20th century. It could be argued he still does. Yet, russell kirk is not a name that is much known these days or much invoked these days. Brad, your book does many things , but it also helps serve as a marvelous bracing introduction or reintroduction to russell kirk. We are avoided talk about many things today, but for starters, please give us a quick overview of this man. Bradley sure. Thank you, john, and thank you, everybody, for coming here. Thanks to cspan tv and booktv. Russell kirk was born in 1918 in michigan into extreme poverty. It was something he experienced the first 35 years of his life , to varying degrees. Yet, he was always very bookish, became interested in all kinds of thi
Absolutely wonderful. Guest thanks for being here. Host and best of success on your next book. I cant wait to read it. [laughter] guest thank you. Host i cant wait to read it. Its going to be another changemaking book. Guest i hope so. Host thank you. Cspan, created by americas Cable Television companies and brought to you as a Public Service by your cable or satellite provider. Bradley birzer, 1953 publication of the conservative mind, what was the reception . Guest pretty incredible, actually. Far more so than anyone would have expected including kirk and his publisher. When it came out, it came out in may of 1953, and it took about a month for it to catch on. But once it did, it really just caught fire. Its roughly 7580 publications in the englishspeaking world, major ones. Everything from the chicago trib and the New York Herald tribune, New York Times, london times, times literary supplement. They all reviewed it, sometimes two or three times. Going through the summer, kind of fee
Conservative thinkers as illuminated by the scholarship of been lacquered, Bradley Byrnes are, and leases awful. I use the words influential on perfect. On purpose. The trajectory of conventional conservatism was created and informed by the figures are panel will discuss this morning. We will think you will find well conservatism is a uniting theme, elements of Common Ground thinking will be apparent due ty informed philosophies. As the editor of the t. S. Eliot and christian tradition, then will be discussing elliotts significance and the mid20th century conservative traditions. Bradely is at Hillsdale College and is the cofounder of the imaginative conservative. His scholarship and imagination have led him to publish on topics as diverse as christopher , james cooper and tolkiens middle earth. Is russellsubject kirk, a thinker who in many ways was intellectual standardbearer of postwar conservatism. Associateis is professor of history of pacific university. She focuses on the develop
Television report and it comes on and a young buddy says we feel like we are living in a war zone. And felt like we need an organization. First we have to see what is happening here. When you are sick, surgery is required. The operation is to unite ourselves. And the uniting point would be saving the youth. We utilize our ability and economic input to help existing organizations in the community. That is the bases of it. You write about a lot of athletes having charities and foundations because your tax break wasnt high. It is easy and cool to give out turkey and give out school items. But what are we doing on the 95 bases . My position now is the way the world is now we are not on this every day, 24 7, man, i got to worry about my children. I have four boys and my baby is four years old. I know there is work to do and work has to be done. You have to be courageous and get out of the way. If you are not willing to stand n oon the things and principles that need to be stood on right now