Here is a segment of a 1993 interview with Russell Kirk, the author of seminal work of American conservatism, The Conservative Mind.
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(HT to The Spartan Spectator)
For a further elaboration of what Conservatism is, read (for example) Kirk's Ten Conservative Principles at The Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal.
It is a great shame, that he is not better known in Australia. One Australian (apart from myself) who bemoans this state of affairs is R.J. Stove, who in a book review of a collection of Russell Kirk's essays wrote:
The case of Russell Amos Kirk (1918-1994) forces upon America's foreign well-wishers an all too urgent question: why does the United States export so diligently, and take such pride in, its very worst modern literature? There is a whole alternative canon of worthwhile recent American author - including Kirk himself - whose names mean virtually nothing abroad; whereas every deadbeat psychopath, deadbeat drunk, deadbeat drug-fiend, deadbeat thug, deadbeat adulterer, deadbeat homosexual, deadbeat communist, and deadbeat plagiarist who ever drew breath on American soil appears assured not only of reverential Hollywood treatment but (if he did not commit suicide first) of the Nobel Literature Prize.
This small post is a small attempt to correct the present sorry state of neglect of this Great Author.
Yours sincerely,
Mild Colonial Boy, Esq.
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