The Moral Imagination & Imaginative Conservatism

By |2023-05-21T11:32:16-05:00May 31st, 2012|Categories: Books, Conservatism, E.B., Edmund Burke, Eva Brann, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Moral Imagination, Senior Contributors, St. John's College|

The Moral Imagination: From Edmund Burke to Lionel Trilling, by Gertrude Himmelfarb. The Moral Imagination is a very engaging collection of a dozen essays on a dozen authors by a historian in the appreciative mode. Some pieces go back to the ’60s, some are recent, all are substantially revised even to the point of recantation. [...]

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The Household Gods of Freedom

By |2016-05-11T12:02:32-05:00May 31st, 2012|Categories: American Republic, Books, John Randolph of Roanoke, M. E. Bradford, Russell Kirk|Tags: |

John Randolph of Roanoke: A Study in American Politics, by Russell Kirk. For Southerners of my antique persuasion, Russell Kirk’s John Randolph of Roanoke is a locus classicus. And for most American conservatives, it is a work of decisive importance, a path leading into a neglected portion of our common patrimony, a portion now not well [...]

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