Auld Kirk.(SHELF LIFE)(The Postmodern Imagination of Russell Kirk; Locke; Coincidentally)(Book review) From: National Review | Date: August 13, 2007| Author: Potemra, Michael | COPYRIGHT 2007 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

ALAN WOLFE's enraged essay on Russell Kirk in The New Republic earlier this summer underscores a problem many people of a rationalist, coolly logical cast of mind--liberals and conservatives alike--have with Kirk. It's not so much that they disagree with him (though many, of course, do) as that they find him extremely irritating. His thought doesn't engage them on their own terms, and--as a result--his declarations appear to them pompous, and intellectually vacuous. The way I have ...

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