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*Conservative European and American statesmen such as [[John Adams]], [[George Canning]], [[John C. Calhoun]], [[Joseph de Maistre]], [[Benjamin Disraeli]], and [[Arthur Balfour]];

*Conservative European and American statesmen such as [[John Adams]], [[George Canning]], [[John C. Calhoun]], [[Joseph de Maistre]], [[Benjamin Disraeli]], and [[Arthur Balfour]];

*The conservative side of such well-known authors as [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]], [[Walter Scott]], [[James Fenimore Cooper]], [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]], [[James Russell Lowell]], [[George Gissing]], [[George Santayana]], and [[Thomas Stearns Eliot]];

*The conservative side of such well-known authors as [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]], [[Walter Scott]], [[James Fenimore Cooper]], [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]], [[James Russell Lowell]], [[George Gissing]], [[George Santayana]], and [[Thomas Stearns Eliot]];

*Onscure British and American authors such as [[Fisher Ames]], [[John Randolph of Roanoke]], [[Orestes Brownson]], [[John Henry Newman]], [[Walter Bagehot]], [[Henry Maine]], [[Edwin Lawrence Godkin]], [[Leslie Stephen]], [[Albert Venn Dicey]], [[Paul Elmer More]], and [[Irving Babbitt]]. ''The Portable Conservative Reader'' (1982), which Kirk edited, contains sample writings by most of the authors he favored.

*Obscure British and American authors such as [[Fisher Ames]], [[John Randolph of Roanoke]], [[Orestes Brownson]], [[John Henry Newman]], [[Walter Bagehot]], [[Henry Maine]], [[Edwin Lawrence Godkin]], [[Leslie Stephen]], [[Albert Venn Dicey]], [[Paul Elmer More]], and [[Irving Babbitt]]. ''The Portable Conservative Reader'' (1982), which Kirk edited, contains sample writings by most of the authors he favored.

===Conservative attacks on Kirk===

===Conservative attacks on Kirk===

Kirk grounded his "Burkean conservatism" in tradition, political philosophy, ''belles lettres'', and the strong religious faith of his later years; rather than libertarianism and free market economic reasoning. ''The Conservative Mind'' hardly mentions economics at all.  

Kirk grounded his "Burkean conservatism" in tradition, political philosophy, ''belles lettres'', and the strong religious faith of his later years; rather than libertarianism and free market economic reasoning. ''The Conservative Mind'' hardly mentions economics at all.  

In a polemic essay,<ref>[http://emp.byui.edu/DavisR/202/Libertarians.htm See]</ref> Kirk (quoting [[T. S. Eliot]]) called libertarians "chirping sectaries", adding that they and conservatives have nothing in common. He called the libertarian movement "an ideological clique forever splitting into sects still smaller and odder, but rarely conjugating."  He said a line of division exists between believers in "some sort of transcendent moral order" and "utilitarians admitting no transcendent sanctions for conduct." He included libertarians in the latter category.<ref>[http://emp.byui.edu/DavisR/202/Libertarians.htm See]</ref>

In a polemic essay,<ref>[http://emp.byui.edu/DavisR/202/Libertarians.htm See]</ref> Kirk (quoting [[T.S. Eliot]]) called libertarians "chirping sectaries", adding that they and conservatives have nothing in common. He called the libertarian movement "an ideological clique forever splitting into sects still smaller and odder, but rarely conjugating."  He said a line of division exists between believers in "some sort of transcendent moral order" and "utilitarians admitting no transcendent sanctions for conduct." He included libertarians in the latter category.<ref>[http://emp.byui.edu/DavisR/202/Libertarians.htm See]</ref>

===Kirk and Neoconservatism===

===Kirk and Neoconservatism===