Gregory Collins, Author at The Imaginative Conservative

About Gregory Collins

Gregory Collins is a doctoral student in Political Theory and American Politics at The Catholic University of America. He has previously worked for Washington Post columnist George F. Will and interned at The Heritage Foundation.

Howard Zinn & a Real People’s History of the United States

By Gregory Collins|2024-07-07T17:23:05-05:00October 20th, 2013|Categories: American Republic, Books, History|

Countless examples of unacknowledged efforts of little platoons pulsate in U.S. history, waiting to be uncovered and lifted to eminence in Americans’ consciousness. And though Howard Zinn fails to place his finger on the genuine accomplishments of these little platoons, he has at least watered the seeds for a real people’s history of the United [...]

John Locke and Conservatism: Indispensable or Antithetical?

By Gregory Collins|2022-08-29T08:15:08-05:00June 28th, 2013|Categories: American Founding, Conservatism, John Locke|

Does John Locke offer enduring principles of political philosophy that harmonize with the conservative tradition? One of the puzzling trends in contemporary American conservative thought is the insistence that John Locke and conservatism as outlined by Russell Kirk have little to do with one another. Conservative critics have accused Locke of promoting materialistic individualism, unprincipled [...]