Marco Respinti

President Columbia Institute * Director Centro Studi Russell Kirk *, Independent Jounalist * Roman Catholic, Conservative, and Tolkienite

I am a scholar of Anglo-American Conservative thought based in Milan, Italy, with many connections around the world. A cultural and political commentator, I contribute to several magazines and journals such as "Libero", "il Foglio", "liberal", "Tempi", "l'Occdientale", "Il Timone", "Radici Cristiane", and "Cristianità". I have also published articles and comments in "il Giornale", "Avvenire", "Ideazione", "Secolo d'Italia", "Percorsi di cultura politica", "Formiche" and many others. A Senior Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal, in Mecosta, Michigan, I am the General Director of Centro Studi Russell Kirk in Milan, Italy. An alumnus of The Leadership Institute of Arlington, Virginia, I am the World Congress of Families (Rockford, Illinois) Coordinator for Italy. A translator and writer of books, I have brought into Italian works by Edmund Burke, Charles Dickens, T.S. Eliot, Russell Kirk, J.R.R. Tolkien, Gustave Thibon and Régine Pernoud. In 2007 I have published "Processo a Darwin" and the previous year "Ronald W. Reagan. Un americano alla Casa Bianca", featuring contributions by several Conservative american opinionists. My new book is entitled "Gli artigli del dragone" (2008) and deals with the ghastly violation of human rights and dignity in Communist China.