Russell Amos Kirk (October 19, 1918 – April 29, 1994) was an American political philosopher, moralist, historian, social critic, literary critic, author, and novelist who influenced 20th century American conservatism. In 1953, he authored ''The Conservative Mind'', which traced the development of conservative thought in the Anglo-American tradition and Edmund Burke. The book helped establish the intellectual framework for the conservative movement in the postwar era. Kirk was the chief proponent of traditionalist conservatism. He was also an accomplished author of Gothic and ghost story fiction. Clinton Rossiter said that thanks to Kirk, "the so-called 'new conservatism' of the postwar period takes on new substance and meaning". In 2013 Alfred Regnery stated, " ''The Conservative Mind'' was the catalyst that began the transformation of a band of disparate conservative critics into the political, cultural, and intellectual force that it is today."
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Russell Amos Kirk (October 19, 1918 – April 29, 1994) was an American political philosopher, moralist, historian, social critic, literary critic, author, and novelist who influenced 20th century American conservatism. In 1953, he authored ''The Conservative Mind'', which traced the development of conservative thought in the Anglo-American tradition and Edmund Burke. The book helped establish the intellectual framework for the conservative movement in the postwar era. Kirk was the chief proponent of traditionalist conservatism. He was also an accomplished author of Gothic and ghost story fiction. Clinton Rossiter said that thanks to Kirk, "the so-called 'new conservatism' of the postwar period takes on new substance and meaning". In 2013 Alfred Regnery stated, " ''The Conservative Mind'' was the catalyst that began the transformation of a band of disparate conservative critics into the political, cultural, and intellectual force that it is today."
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