Thirty years after his death on April 29, 1994, Russell Kirk haunts America’s conservatives—because conservatism itself is a ghost. It appears amid ruins, glimpsed at twilight or felt at midnight even by those who in daylight think of nothing but presidential elections and the uses to which power can be put. No thinker on the “New Right,” no Christian nationalist or national conservative or postliberal or neoreactionary, is as profound as Kirk, not because his ideas are more radical than theirs but because he represents something more radical than ideas.
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