Michael Lucchese Editor

Russell Kirk (1918–1994), considered the father of the postwar conservative intellectual movement, was one of the most influential writers of the last century. His many books include The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Santayana; Eliot and his Age: T. S. Eliot’s Moral Imagination in the Twentieth Century; The Roots of American Order; and Sword of the Imagination: Memoirs of a Half Century of Literary Conflict.

Michael Lucchese’s writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, National Review, and the Washington Examiner, among other outlets. He is the founder and CEO of Pipe Creek Consulting, an associate editor of Law & Liberty, and a contributing editor to Providence. Lucchese lives in Washington, DC.

Bradley J. Birzer is professor of history and the Russell Amos Kirk Chair in American Studies at Hillsdale College. His books include Russell Kirk: American Conservative and J. R. R. Tolkien’s Sanctifying Myth.