Volume 12 in the Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers series focuses on Russell Kirk’s conservative philosophy. >

A previous version of this book was published in 1957 by The Devin-Adair Company as The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Conservatism. –Title verso.

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In attempting to clarify the spirit of conservatism, Kirk turns his attention to three broad fields-political philosophy, religious thought, and imaginative literature. Following Burke, whom he calls the first truly…

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public…

This examination of John Randolph of Roanoke is an essay in both political theory and American history. Included in this edition is a recently discovered first-hand account of Randolph’s death…

A quarter of a century before Lyndon B. Johnson popularized the slogan The Great Society, Donald Davidson wrote his critique of Leviathan, the omnipotent nation-state, in terms that only recently…

The Conservative Mind: From Burke To Santayana is a seminal work of political philosophy written by Russell Amos Kirk. First published in 1953, the book traces the development of conservative…