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Entry: Postmodern, Not Hypermodern: Russell Kirk Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/postmodern_not_hypermodern_russell_kirk#15143 Post contents: One small note/clarification: I was Dr. Kirk's assistant for the years 1971-1972. As such I had some responsibility for the preparation of his little quarterly, THE UNVERSITY BOOKMAN. The BOOKMAN did publish authors and scientists who maintained that there were cognitive and genetic differences between the races, and Dr. Kirk also believed that to be true. The great preponderance of evidence today tends to confirm that there are definable DNA difference. That said, such a view should not be used as a basis for hatred based on race which would certainly violate Christian belief.Dr. Kirk, I believe, would have rejected that as well. Nevertheless, as anyone who has read his historical novel, A CREATURE FOR THE TWILIGHT may attest, he opposed decolonization and felt that native Africans were not, generally, prepared for independence. That did not prevent him from inviting exiled members of Ethiopian nobility into his household. And certainly "race" was NOT his paramount issue, by any means; but it was part of the cultural equation that had to be understood, and could not be ignored. I'm not trying to stir controversy, simply to state what I know is factual. Sent at: 2008 07 20