Henry Long, Author at The Imaginative Conservative

About Henry Long

Henry Long is a recent summa cum laude graduate in philosophy, politics, and economics from Claremont McKenna College. He currently works at a think tank in Washington, D.C.

Music of the Declaration

By Henry Long|2026-07-03T10:51:31-05:00July 3rd, 2026|Categories: American Republic, Christianity, Declaration of Independence, John Locke, Liberty, Socrates|

If we reject the Christian account of liberty, the Declaration ceases to cohere. If we accept the Christian account of liberty, we can recover a Declaration that is both philosophic and poetic. The most famous sentence of the Declaration of Independence attempts to be a work of poetry and philosophy: “We hold these truths to [...]