Joseph Phelan, Author at The Imaginative Conservative

About Joseph Phelan

Joseph Phelan holds a Ph.D. in the history of political thought from the University of Toronto. He was the arts editor for Intowner.com, a now defunct Washington DC free paper where he wrote a regular monthly column. Dr. Phelan has also written for the Weekly Standard, Claremont Institute, New Criterion, Canadian Review of Books, and The Washington Times.

Demystifying the Louvre

By Joseph Phelan|2020-08-26T16:37:23-05:00August 26th, 2020|Categories: Architecture, Art, Books, Culture, History, Western Civilization|

In recounting the growth of one of the West’s grandest cultural achievements, James Gardner is an admirably conservative guide to the impressive qualities of the Louvre. Today when Western civilization is under attack as never before, it is a paradox that the encyclopedic art museum, one of the characteristic achievements of this civilization, is [...]