Ideologies / Paleo-Conservative / Russell Kirk
§ The minds · 1918–1994 · United States · Writer & theorist
Russell Kirk
The conservative mind
Tradition, order, and the moral imagination.
Economic+68
SocialistMarket
Governance+45
LibertarianAuthoritarian
Social−72
TraditionalProgressive
The thinker whose 'The Conservative Mind' gave postwar American conservatism its intellectual genealogy, rooting it in tradition, religion and the 'moral imagination.'
social
Deeply traditional — the 'permanent things' against modern flux.
economic
Free enterprise rooted in property and local community, not abstract markets.
governance
Order through inherited institutions, religion and custom.
Notable for
- 'The Conservative Mind'
- Founded 'Modern Age'
- Defined American traditionalism
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