 Vol. 57, No. 4 Russell Kirk loved to remind Americans of the great traditions behind our nation’s founding. Kirk concentrated on English traditions in such books as The Conservative Mind (1953) and America’s British Culture (1993), but he also wrote on biblical and classical traditions in The Roots of American Order (1974) and the appendix to America’s British Culture, “What Did Americans Inherit from the Ancients?” Read the full article |
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