Lee Cheek and Carey Roberts, Author at The Imaginative Conservative

About Lee Cheek and Carey Roberts

Carey Roberts is Online Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of History at Liberty University. His most recent work is a new scholarly edition of William Gilmore Simms’ Captain John Smith: The Founder of Virginia (South Carolina Press), and Patrick Henry-Onslow Debate: Liberty and Republicanism in American Political Thought (Lexington Books). H. Lee Cheek, Jr. is Senior Contributor at The Imaginative Conservative and Professor of Government and Public Policy in the Helms School of Government at Liberty University. He is also Dean Emeritus of the School of Social Sciences at East Georgia State College, and Senior Fellow of the Alexander Hamilton Institute. His books include Political Philosophy and Cultural Renewal (Routledge), Calhoun and Popular Rule (University of Missouri Press) and Confronting Modernity (Wesley Studies Society), among others.

Clyde Wilson’s “Jeffersonian Conservative Tradition” Revisited

By Lee Cheek and Carey Roberts|2024-09-04T16:19:55-05:00September 4th, 2024|Categories: Clyde Wilson, Conservatism, History, South, Thomas Jefferson|

For Clyde Wilson, the Jeffersonian conservative tradition was never a stale embrace of the past for its own sake. It conserves only to produce something better. In 1969 the late Mel Bradford recommended to Modern Age’s second editor, Eugene Davidson, that he should publish a groundbreaking article by a young historian named Clyde Wilson. The [...]

Jurgen Habermas, John C. Calhoun, and Slavery

By Lee Cheek and Carey Roberts|2024-09-04T10:53:05-05:00April 3rd, 2020|Categories: American Republic, History, John C. Calhoun, Slavery, South|

Perhaps no American thinker has suffered more from a scholarly hegemony of discourse than John C. Calhoun, whose work and personage are often dismissed by his critics for a single phrase attributed to him, diminishing the careful and complicated analysis he deserves. The careful reader does not have to be a devotee of Jürgen Habermas [...]