After Buckley
Russell Kirk: American Conservative by Bradley J. Birzer
You loved Buckley's combative charm and Yale Club sophistication—that portrait of conservatism as a witty, erudite crusade against liberal dominance. But what if you could trace the intellectual DNA back to its source, to the brooding scholar whose prose married Burke to Main Street and redefined American right-wing thought before anyone raised a television banner? This is conservatism's philosophical foundation, raw and unapologetically elitist.