Russell Kirk

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he celebrated the practice of Christianity, in his case Catholicism, and he found it inconceivable that civilization in the West could exist without it. In this way, Kirk continued and amplified the thinking of earlier writers such as Irving Babbitt, Paul Elmer More, T.S. Eliot, Allen Tate, Willa Cather, and C.S. Lewis. More broadly in terms of his political ideas, Kirk was much indebted to Edmund Burke.