![]() ![]() ![]() The book captured a wide readership and stimulated interest in conservative ideas. His second book, The Conservative Mind, was a landmark historical study of conservative thought. Russell Kirk was a major figure in American intellectual history. The interview was originally published in Continuity: A Journal of History (Spring/ Fall 1994). Schock, a writer and video producer who earned his doctorate under Russell Kirk. Mulligan, Jr., assistant editor of Continuity and Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Murray State University and David B. ![]() Kirk completed final editing on it just weeks before his death in April 1994. He knows there are always ills and devils in the world, and he would rather get along with present imperfections than dash into some ruinous and impossible scheme of perfectibility.Įditor’s Note: This interview, conducted in the summer of 1993, is a look at The Conservative Mind after forty years. I’d say a conservative is a person who prefers the devil he knows to the devil he doesn’t. ![]()
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