Russell Kirk’s Concise Guide to Conservatism Audiobook (Free)

The present day conservative intellectual movement began in 1953 with Russell Kirk’s groundbreaking book The Conservative Mind. Four years later on, he released a pithy, wry, philosophical overview of what conservatism actually means. Originally entitled The Intelligent Woman’s Information to Conservatism, this small publication was essentially a popular version of The Conservative Mind.

Now, a hundred years after its author’s delivery, this neglected gem has been recovered. It remains what Kirk meant it to become: an available introduction to conservative ideas, specifically for the youthful. With a fresh name and an launch by the eminent intellectual historian Wilfred M. McClay, Russell Kirk’s Concise Information to Conservatism comes with uncanny timing. The movement that Kirk described in 1953 is definitely today so contested and fragmented that no-one seems in a position to say with confidence what conservatism means.

This book, as fresh and prophetic as your day it had been published sixty years ago, is a reminder that no-one can match Russell Kirk in engaging people’s minds and imaginations-an indispensable task in reviving our civilization.