Apr 19, 2012 ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Thomas Jefferson, Conservative

By Clyde Wilson|2020-04-11T11:06:57-05:00April 19th, 2012|Categories: American Republic, Books, Clyde Wilson, Conservatism, Featured, Republicanism, Thomas Jefferson|

From historian Dumas Malone, we can, if we wish, begin to discern the real Jefferson. And that Jefferson is, in the broad outline of American history, identifiable in no other way than as a conservative. The Sage of Monticello, by Dumas Malone, Volume Six of Jefferson and His Time In 1809 Thomas Jefferson yielded up [...]

Set Your iPad Aside, Open Your Books, and Let’s Converse

I distinctly remember reading Jacques Ellul’s books on technology, and specifically even remember where I was sitting when I read his The Technological Bluff, where he essentially argues that it is all but over and people will give over to the tidal wave of technology/technique. Here we are more than twenty years later, and if [...]