On America: How to Understand the Legacy of 1776, Russell Kirk, edited by Michael Lucchese, Creed and Culture, £20 This collection of essays, edited by Michael Lucchese, published to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, has the obvious aim to introduce Russell Kirk’s ideas about the fundamentals of American politics. Yet it achieves more than that: it also provides a great insight into Kirk’s general ideas of politics as part of cultured human cohabitation.