Source: Law & Liberty
by Mark Lucchese
“Halloween was the favorite holiday of Russell Kirk, modern American conservatism’s founder. As much as he enjoyed trick-or-treating and other spooky festivities, October 31 meant something even more profound to him. Kirk believed All Hallows’ Eve serves as a reminder of what Edmund Burke called the ‘eternal contract of society’ that exists between the living and the dead. It is altogether fitting and proper, then, that Kirk devoted much of his literary efforts to a classic American genre: the ghost story.” (10/31/25)
https://lawliberty.org/a-ghostly-parable-against-central-planning/