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Entry: The Pragmatism of Russell Kirk Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_pragmatism_of_russell_kirk#3630 Post contents: I must object strongly to the attempt to enlist RK's authority in support of extreme racialist ideology. The failure of moral imagination is not his. He did not advocate a race-based franchise in America, though he might have worried about the political intent and effect of the voter registration drives of the late 1960s. He clearly did not support the apartheid system in SA -- it is easy to imagine him allied with Smuts against Malan; but he was right to fear the attempt to impose liberal ideas of democracy on Africa, especially as it was then. Sent at: 2008 12 01