He is the author of\u00a0J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle Earth<\/i>,\u00a0The Augustianian Life and Mind of Christopher Dawson<\/i>,\u00a0American Cicero: The Life of Charles Carroll<\/i>, and has a co-edited volume of James Fennimore Cooper\u2019s\u00a0The American Democrat<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Brad is a beloved professor of history at Hillsdale College, where he holds, appropriately enough, the Russell Amos Kirk Chair. He is also a Fellow of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. Through all his books and writings and teaching, Brad has sought to recover and renew the great tradition of Christian humanism. In the process, he has proved himself to be among the very few consequential writers laboring in that tradition.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Bradley J. Birzer is well known through his magisterial biography, Russell Kirk: American Conservative. As a result of that terrific book and his years of writing, especially as the co-founder and senior contributor of\u00a0The Imaginative Conservative, Brad is recognized as a leading scholar on Kirk and his place in American conservatism. Brad is also a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"![\"\"](\"https:\/\/kirkcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Ian-Crowe-232x300.png\")
Ian Crowe is director of the Edmund Burke Society of America. He is currently an associate professor of History at Belmont Abbey College and executive editor of the journal <\/span>Studies in Burke and His Time<\/span><\/i>.<\/span>\r\n\r\nIan\u2019s research interest is the career and writings of the eighteenth-century Irish politician and thinker Edmund Burke, regarded by many as the father of modern intellectual conservatism, and a figure whose thought was central to the writings of Russell Kirk. He also writes and lectures on the wider history of the development of British and American conservative thought since the French Revolution. His publications include <\/span>Patriotism and Public Spirit: Edmund Burke and the Role of the Critic in Mid-18<\/span><\/i>th<\/span><\/i>-Century Britain<\/span><\/i> (2012), <\/span>An Imaginative Whig: Reassessing the Life and Thought of Edmund Burke<\/span><\/i> (2005), <\/span>The Enduring Edmund Burke<\/span><\/i><\/a> (1997), <\/span>Unwelcome Truths<\/span><\/i>(1997), \u201cThe Hereditary Peerage: a Voice in and for Rural Britain\u201d in <\/span>Another Country,<\/span><\/i> and a number of articles and reviews in <\/span>Modern Age, The Civil War Book Review, The University Bookman<\/span><\/i>, and <\/span>Conference and Common Room.<\/span><\/i>\r\n\r\nCurrently, Ian is compiling and editing an anthology of some of Burke\u2019s less familiar works. Provisionally entitled \u201cEdmund Burke and the Politics of Common Sense,\u201d this project is designed to increase awareness of the breadth and diversity of Burke\u2019s thought among students and the wider public.\r\n\r\nIan is concerned to make Burke\u2019s historical and intellectual influence on conservative thought in Europe and the United States recognizable to young scholars, and it was this interest that first brought him to the Russell Kirk Center. His efforts to move Burke studies on from the ideologically driven debates of the Cold War period are also a tribute to the spirit of scholarship in which Russell Kirk, Peter Stanlis, and Francis Canavan invigorated Burke studies and ensured that Burke\u2019s thought would remain vital and accessible to future generations.<\/span>\r\n\r\nIan studied Modern History at the University of Oxford and earned his Ph.D. in History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Before moving to Chapel Hill, he and his wife were resident in Mecosta, where he served as program director for the Kirk Center from 2000 to 2002.<\/span>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirkcenter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42266"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirkcenter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirkcenter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirkcenter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirkcenter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42266"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kirkcenter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42272,"href":"https:\/\/kirkcenter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42266\/revisions\/42272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirkcenter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirkcenter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirkcenter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}