February 27: Tim Carney Joins the Book Gallery

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Hello John,

Next week, we invite you to join University Bookman editor Luke Sheahan on Thursday, February 27 at 7 PM as he discusses with the always interesting and lively writer, Tim Carney, the perils of the modern family and how our culture has become unfriendly to healthy family life.

Tim Carney has been a columnist, author, and editor in Washington, D.C. for more than twenty years. He is the senior columnist for the Washington Examiner and a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. His articles have been published in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Post, Atlantic, Reason, and National Review, among others. He has appeared on Fox, MSNBC, CNN, PBS, and CNBC.

His book, Alienated America, was a Washington Post bestseller and was named among Wall Street Journal's best books of the year. Tim wrote part of that book while a Wilbur Fellow at the Kirk Center.

He is one of the best conservative voices on behalf of the Permanent Things, particularly the health of the family and of local communities.

As you may know from my last e-letter, the Kirk Center recently released our full 2024 Report, giving an overview of one of the most successful years in our history. Since the report covers a lot, it’s easy to miss some real gems included in it. A reflection I particularly liked came from one of our archive interns and Hillsdale alumni, Daniel Brand. Dan wrote an article after completing the digitization of 824 articles about Russell Kirk for the digital archive. Here’s an excerpt:

“Kirk’s impact on the modern day. . . is still apparent to intellectual conservatives, both budding and old. His mountain of works gives us some guiding principles, vices to avoid, virtues to pursue, and even the name that we call ourselves. Kirk shows us both a logical and imaginative sense of conservatism through his fundamental truths and powerful stories. Both of these live on in his works, keeping him as an essential staple in any conservative studies…we honor Kirk in promoting him among those who have not heard of him, providing them the opportunity to learn both from his chivalrous example and his enduring words.”

Read the 2024 Report

In closing, I’d like to bring to your attention two recent publications: one an interview with Kirk Center board member and Distinguished Fellow on American Federalism at Save Our States, Michael Maibach, in Public Discourse on “Why the Founders Chose the Electoral College Design,” and the other by longtime friend to the Kirk Center and professor at Northwood University, Dr. Glenn Moots, who penned an important contribution to Kirk studies recently in the American Reformer entitled, “Russell Kirk and America’s Protestant Character.” I think many of you will enjoy reading these.

Until next month, yours in ordered liberty,

Jeffrey O. Nelson, Ph.D.
Executive Director & CEO

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