Those of us who seek to preserve the Good, the True, and the Beautiful are aware, as the old saying goes, that "there be dragons" in the world who seek to destroy the invaluable inheritance that is Western Civilization. Perhaps this has never been truer than it is today in our hyper-polarized world, where conservatives [...]
Have you been reading The Imaginative Conservative for some time now? Perhaps you read our thoughtful essays every day, as you yearn for deeper thinking about “the permanent things” that undergird Western Civilization and human life: philosophy, history, literature, music, the Great Books. Or perhaps you just peek at us on occasion as you tire of [...]
We apologize for being a little slow lately, but we have had intermittent power and sporadic internet access (and sometimes no running water!) here in Texas this past week. Please pray for us and bear with us, as we hope to be back at full steam again next week. In the meantime, please enjoy the [...]
It's the end of the year, and your last chance in 2020 to support The Imaginative Conservative. Our journal is now more than ten years old. Perhaps you have traveled with us since the day in 2010 that we embarked on our mission is to preserve the transcendentals, the “permanent things” that constitute the glory [...]
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The Imaginative Conservative's mission is to preserve the transcendentals, the “permanent things” that constitute the glory of Western Civilization. Here we offer thoughtful and reflective essays on issues of culture, philosophy, history, politics, economics, the arts, and liberal learning, written by some of the great conservative minds of the present and the past. Since The Imaginative Conservative’s inception ten years [...]
If we followed the crowd, we would tell you, our readers: "This is our most crucial year, a turning point in our journal's history. Without your immediate support..." But we at The Imaginative Conservative think more highly of you, dear readers, than to subject you to such hyperbolic support requests. We know that you are thoughtful, [...]
Gen. Anthony McAuliffe and Col. Harry Kinnard December 1944. As Christmas approaches, the beleaguered German army suddenly tries to punch its way out of the circle of Allied Forces surrounding it. As part of the Battle of the Bulge, General Heinrich Freiherr von Lüttwitz leads a force that traps the American 101st Airborne [...]
Elections and political candidates come and go. But The Permanent Things remain. And if the American Republic is to survive, we must turn to the mighty pillars that have supported her for the last two-and-a-half centuries: a dedication to individual liberty, the common good, public and private virtue, truth, goodness, beauty, and faith in Almighty [...]
(Tacoma, WA)—Bill Gleason is trying to figure out how to use the recent death of a sports star, to whom he previously paid little attention, to draw attention to himself on social media. "Of course, I'm simply going to start with an 'I'm devastated' post, so people know how much this is affecting ME," Mr. [...]
(WORLD) — Users across various social media platforms were shocked today to learn of the death of 89-year-old Manfred Krauss, the renowned German film director, whose credits include dozens of films, including 1958's The Leper, 1972's Peregrinations, and 1991's Oscar-nominated The Nursemaid's Lament. Krauss had been engaged in a well-publicized battle with lung cancer for [...]
The Black Sox Scandal was a Major League Baseball game-fixing scandal in which eight members of the Chicago White Sox (Arnold "Chick" Gandil, Eddie Cicotte, Oscar "Happy" Felsch, "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, Fred McMullin, Charles "Swede" Risberg, George "Buck" Weaver, Claude "Lefty" Williams) were accused of throwing the 1919 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds in [...]
Memento Mori They say the end may be near. But we already know that life is fleeting, that none of us knows the day or the hour. So why not give now while you can, to make this passing world a better place while there is still time? During your brief sojourn in this vale [...]
Tupelo, Mississippi—In the wake of the controversy over the current Mississippi state flag, which includes the Confederate Battle Flag in its design, a group calling itself The Non-Binary Anti-Fascist People's Liberation Society for Climate Sanity has proposed a new, transparent flag to replace those state flags having what it deems to be "racist" designs. "This [...]