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[Skull]

The Russell Kirk Center gives seminars that will inspire you and your kids!

Pillars of American Order

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

The Russell Kirk Center gives seminars that will inspire you and your kids!

Pillars of American Order

That's great for politica, but that subject is not covered in most high school curriculums.

 

[charlesmox1]

I've never heard of these seminars. But thanks for the tip.

 

[Skull]

Kirk's conservatism was not political at all;

"Being neither a religion nor an ideology, the body of opinion termed conservatism possesses no Holy Writ and no Das Kapital to provide dogmata. So far as it is possible to determine what conservatives believe, the first principles of the conservative persuasion are derived from what leading conservative writers and public men have professed during the past two centuries. After some introductory remarks on this general theme, I will proceed to list ten such conservative principles.

Perhaps it would be well, most of the time, to use this word “conservative” as an adjective chiefly. For there exists no Model Conservative, and conservatism is the negation of ideology: it is a state of mind, a type of character, a way of looking at the civil social order. The attitude we call conservatism is sustained by a body of sentiments, rather than by a system of ideological dogmata."

Ten Conservative Principles