I’m pleased to announce that the Kirk Center is initiating an exciting new project called “Pillars of American Order: Restoring the Beliefs and Institutions that Uphold America’s Freedoms.” This project is designed to meet the pressing need for educational programs aimed at renewing understanding of the American constitutional tradition.

As events over the past year have made clear, America’s civil social order is under serious attack across the board. In addition, studies continue to document the decline in civic and historical literacy among young people. An energetic effort to rebuild appreciation for the wisdom and practices that gave form to American society is required today. Given the Kirk's Center's experience, it is ideally positioned to provide that much-needed intellectual formation to the rising generation.

The Center’s new project is based on Russell’s classic work, The Roots of American Order, which traces the contributions of Hebraic and Christian belief, classical philosophy and law, and British political experience to America’s inheritance of ordered liberty.