ABSTRACT
The author's relationship to Russell Kirk exists in two distinct and discrete parts: as a young critic in the mid-1950s of The Conservative Mind; and as an aging publisher of Transaction issuing works in the tradition of that classic text. Under the impact of Russell's thinking the author has become more critical of established trends and tendencies in present day social research as the title of their next work, The Decomposition of Sociology, should make quite clear. In a world of assaults on American ties to Europe, under the rubric of Eurocentricism or multiculturalism, he can fashion a book on America's British Culture. Indeed, one suspects that capitalism may be as much an anathema for Russell as it is for hard-bitten socialists. It is rather that Russell sees the present economic arrangement as far better than the utopian promises by the communists.
