About Darrell Falconburg

Darrell Falconburg is the Academic Program Officer at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal. Prior to joining the Kirk Center, he worked as an administrator and teacher for newly formed classical schools. He is pursuing a PhD in the Humanities with a history emphasis from the great books program at Faulkner University. He received an MA in Philosophy from Mount Angel Abbey and Seminary as well as a BA in History from the College of Idaho.

Dante’s Transformed Love: Musings on the Poet’s Love for Beatrice

By |2024-02-10T20:18:07-06:00February 10th, 2024|Categories: Art, Books, Christianity, Dante, Love, Timeless Essays, Western Civilization|

If the "Vita Nuova" had been the only major work Dante had made, this work alone would have earned him the reputation as a great poet of Western Civilization. It is well-known that Dante is one of the greatest poets in Western Civilization. His magnum opus, The Divine Comedy, is considered one of the crowning [...]

Russell Kirk’s “The Conservative Mind” for the Rising Generation

By |2023-11-25T00:16:41-06:00November 24th, 2023|Categories: Books, Conservatism, Russell Kirk, The Conservative Mind|

Russell Kirk’s "The Conservative Mind" teaches us the importance of conserving our cultural patrimony and provides us with images of the customs, institutions, and beliefs that we ought to conserve. In this way, Kirk grounds us in the conservative intellectual tradition, from Burke to Eliot, that can stand against the ideologies of our age. Conservatism in [...]

Flannery O’Connor on Sin and Politics

By |2022-08-06T14:49:06-05:00August 2nd, 2022|Categories: Christianity, Flannery O'Connor, Literature, Politics, Timeless Essays|

Flannery O’Connor understood that what is wrong with the world is not our failure to adhere to a certain political or economic program, as important as these may be. Instead, what is wrong with the world is sin. And so, the task for those of us who want to renew and preserve Western culture is [...]

Who Reads Robert Nisbet Anymore?

By |2021-09-29T16:58:25-05:00September 29th, 2021|Categories: Books, Community, Conservatism, Featured, Government, Robert Nisbet, Timeless Essays|

Is Robert Nisbet’s “The Quest for Community” a historical artifact or a living source of wisdom? Has his insight into the natural human desire for community become a moot point in light of the rise of the State, which has replaced the church, family, and neighborhood? Of the many books that Robert Nisbet wrote during [...]

Ideas Still Have Consequences: Richard Weaver on Nominalism & Relativism

By |2020-12-04T13:00:57-06:00December 6th, 2020|Categories: Philosophy, Relativism, Richard M. Weaver, Southern Agrarians|

Richard Weaver’s book “Ideas Have Consequences” presents the harmful effects of nominalism on Western civilization since it gained prominence in the Late Middle Ages. Many of our modern woes stem from the acceptance of nominalism and the rejection of philosophical realism back in the fourteenth century. By the time of his untimely death in 1963 [...]

Revisiting Robert Nisbet’s Conservative Classic

By |2020-10-09T15:40:05-05:00October 9th, 2020|Categories: Community, Conservatism, Freedom, Modernity, Robert Nisbet|

In his analysis of alienation in the modern world, Robert Nisbet recognized an important truth about the human person, which makes “The Quest for Community” timely even today: The individual cannot be understood except in relationship to other individuals in time and space. The abstract, autonomous individual does not exist nor can he ever exist. [...]

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