Sources of Authority: The Roots of the Great American Identity Crisis ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Sources of Authority: The Roots of the Great American Identity Crisis ~ The Imaginative Conservative

The problem of authority is not merely a political problem or even simply a problem of faith. It instead requires a gathering up of the whole of life, indeed the world in all of its rich multitude of aspects, in relation to its meaning-granting center. Anxious about trends he was witnessing in the ’60s and ’70s, Russell Kirk attempted to recover the “roots of American order” by drawing on the cultural heritage that informed the Founding.[1] He e…