Is The conservative mind, from Burke to Santayana (1953) CHUD or WOKE?
chudrank score: 7 / 100 (very CHUD (right-wing)). 0 is CHUD (right-wing), 100 is WOKE (left-wing).
Book by Russell Kirk, 1953.
20 votes: 5% WOKE, 95% CHUD.
Why: Foundational conservative intellectual history
Russell Kirk's *The Conservative Mind* is one of the greatest contributions to twentieth-century American conservatism. Brilliant in every respect, from its conception to its choice of significant figures representing the history of intellectual conservatism, *The Conservative Mind* launched the modern American Conservative Movement when it was first published in 1953 and has become an enduring classic of political thought.