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Below is Part V in our video program “Conservatism and the Western Tradition.” This is the final segment in this discussion here at The Imaginative Conservative. (Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV) Please visit The Imaginative Conservative YouTube Channel for this series and more. […]
Below is Part IV in our video program “Conservatism and the Western Tradition” with Bradley J. Birzer and Winston Elliott, III. There are five segments of this discussion here at The Imaginative Conservative. (To watch the other parts in this series, click here for Part I, Part II, Part III, Part V) […]
John C. Calhoun Click here for Part I Put aside this literal biblical history. A man abstracted from a community and from history, Calhoun believed, in the vein of Aristotle, is not a man at all, but a mere animal. All men, Calhoun argued, are born into varying states of authority—the authority of [...]
John C. Calhoun Last weekend, I had the grand privilege of working with Emily Corwin, Adam Tate, and Richard Brake at a co-sponsored ISI/Liberty Fund colloquium in Philadelphia. Held at the gorgeous Omni, we overlooked Independence Hall. Our topic: Union, republic, and nullification. As I have been so many times in my adult [...]
Below is Part III in our video program “Conservatism and the Western Tradition,” with Dr. Brad Birzer. There are a total of five segments of this discussion here at The Imaginative Conservative. (Part I, Part II, Part IV, Part V) […]
Below is Part II in our video program “Conservatism and the Western Tradition.” There are a total of five segments of this discussion here at The Imaginative Conservative. (Part I, Part III, Part IV, Part V) […]
Below is a very brief introduction to our video program “Conservatism and the Western Tradition.” All five segments of this discussion are now posted here at The Imaginative Conservative. (Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V) […]
There was objective meaning in the world, to be sure: the nonmoral logos or design of the Creator; but such meanings were God’s and not Man’s, until they found an imperfect incarnation, a dark reflection, within the mind and speech and culture of a given human society, which might ascribe values to the meanings so [...]
by Carl Olson Dr. Bradley J. Birzer is the author of Sanctifying the World: The Augustinian Life and Mind of Christopher Dawson and J.R.R. Tolkien’s Sanctifying Myth. In this interview he talks with Carl E. Olson, editor of Ignatius Insight, about his most recent book, American Cicero: The Life of Charles Carroll. Ignatius Insight: Why a book about Charles [...]
Please forgive the following rambles. I’m in Louisville, ready to work with the mighty Gary Gregg again today. Last night, I had the great privilege of speaking with a number of his excellent McConnell Fellows for nearly two hours about Eliot’s Ash Wednesday and another ninety minutes on Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring. I [...]
Imaginative Conservative Readers, considering how much we revere Burke here, I thought it might be good to reprint the following two pieces from him. While I knew he and Adam Smith were close friends, I did not realize until yesterday (February 19, 2012) that he had briefly reviewed each of Smith’s major works. Burke’s words [...]
Few conservatives–with the notable exception of John Lukacs–remember or cite Owen Barfield any longer. This is a shame, and Barfield should really stand with the great Christian Humanists of the previous century. Perhaps his best work is his first, Poetic Diction, originally his undergraduate thesis at Oxford (1922). Published commercially in 1928, it has never [...]
(read part I here) . . . [in original] But how, in the end, does the work of a mere writer affect political life? One is sometimes tempted to answer that the profounder and wiser the man, the less likely is his influence to be discernible. This, of course, is to take a very short [...]