Over the course of twenty-five years, the Russell Kirk Center has provided the ideal conditions for thousands of students and professionals to deepen their understanding of Western civilization and the American experience within it. The Center’s core programs—seminars, fellowships, and publications—aim to educate young people about the political, economic, and cultural practices that nurture America’s civil social order.  There is a pressing need for just this sort of intellectual formation today.

The Center builds upon Russell’s life-long labor to affirm the time-tested principles that he called the Permanent Things and apply them to altered circumstances.  These are the enduring standards that enable us to live as moral beings and to know what to conserve, what to discard, and what is in need of creative reform. It is the Kirk Center’s mission to shed light on those Permanent Things that make possible order, justice, and freedom in a society and are the basis for its improvement.

This year, the Center is launching a 25th anniversary campaign to raise $250,000 to sustain and expand its educational programs that reinvigorate our cultural heritage of learning, faith, and ordered liberty. The majority of the Center’s annual revenue comes from generous donors and the Center would not exist without their commitment to the Permanent Things. We ask you to consider making a gift to the 25th Anniversary Campaign as a member of the Kirk Center’s new donor member Circles.

Everyone who joins the 25th Anniversary Campaign at any giving level will receive the Center’s first ebook of Russell Kirk essays, selected by Kirk Center co-founder Dr. Jeffrey Nelson.

In our 25th year, we invite you to join with us to transmit those enduring norms and principles which Russell called the Permanent Things to a fresh generation.