Russell Kirk: Patron Saint of Populism’s Golden Age?

The second half of the 20th century had no greater teacher of the roots of American conservatism and guardian of our nation’s values than Russell Kirk, the sine qua non of American conservatism’s intellectual tradition. Ronald Reagan rightly Kirk among the “intellectual leaders” who had shaped the movement’s mind, him as the “prophet of American conservatism” who “taught, nurtured, and inspired a generation.”