John Howting, Author at The Imaginative Conservative

About John Howting

John M. Howting III is assistant editor and circulation manager at Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture. He holds a BA in Political Science from Miami University (Ohio).

G.K. Chesterton & the Useless Things

By John Howting|2025-05-15T14:37:37-05:00May 15th, 2025|Categories: Culture, G.K. Chesterton, Labor/Work|

G.K. Chesterton once said, “The opposite of employment is not unemployment, but independence.” Employment, or work, is activity done for some utilitarian end. So, when he says the opposite of employment is independence, he is saying that true independence (or freedom) involves doing things for their own sake. Things done for their own sake he [...]

Why Conservatives Must Support Liberal Education

By John Howting|2025-04-16T09:32:37-05:00April 15th, 2025|Categories: Classical Education, Conservatism, Culture, Liberal Learning, Russell Kirk, Western Civilization|

The task of conservation, in our present day, necessarily entails supporting liberal education. Those conservatives who do not support it will fail to conserve our Western identity. That is to say: they will fail to conserve anything significant, no matter how many tributes they pay to some abstract ideas of “freedom” or “liberty.” I’d like [...]