John M. Vella, Author at The Imaginative Conservative

About John M. Vella

John M. Vella is Acquisitions Editor at Crisis Publications and Sophia Institute Press. He served as editor of Crisis Magazine from 2012 to 2019 and as managing editor of Modern Age: A Quarterly Review for more than a decade. He earned his Master's degree in History from Villanova in 2010.

Thomas More: Virtuous Statesman

By John M. Vella|2023-07-06T00:23:49-05:00February 6th, 2023|Categories: Books, Christendom, Cicero, Classics, Protestant Reformation, St. Thomas More, Timeless Essays|Tags: 1HU|

Several centuries before Edmund Burke, Thomas More warned against theorizing about the perfect society and advised statesmen to do their best with the form of government their people have passed on to them. Though he himself favored one form of government over another, he admitted that we rarely have the power to create the government [...]

Worthy Conservatism

By John M. Vella|2016-05-09T11:47:29-05:00November 17th, 2014|Categories: Conservatism, Featured, Russell Kirk|Tags: 1MA|

In 1955, in the pages of Commonweal magazine, Russell Kirk sought to explain the gradual disappearance of serious journals of opinion in the United States and Britain. He offered several possible reasons for this trend: hard economic times and the material sacrifices required to fight two world wars. Yet these causes did not suffice. While [...]