A Conservative of the Old School

By SCOTT McLEMEE

Russell Kirk rowed against the liberal intellectual currents of his time. Now his followers want to rescue him from the riptide of contemporary conservatism.

Colloquy Live: Read the transcript of a live, online discussion with W. Wesley McDonald, a professor of political science at Elizabethtown College, in Pennsylvania, and author of a new book on Russell Kirk, about how this founder of modern conservatism would fit into the contemporary version of the creed.

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