Do you enjoy reading our reasoned and reflective essays at The Imaginative Conservative, as we pursue the Good, the True, and the Beautiful? Do you enjoy engaging in discussions of culture, history, politics, and economics, in the tradition of Russell Kirk, Edmund Burke, Richard Weaver, Eric Voegelin, Christopher Dawson, and other leaders of Imaginative Conservatism? Do you believe [...]
He was an enthusiastic patron of several major composers of his era, including Wolfgang Mozart, Joseph Haydn, and Ludwig van Beethoven, encouraging them and giving them financial support so that they were free to compose some of the greatest music ever penned by the human hand. He introduced Mozart to the works of Bach and [...]
Lord, Remember Me O Thou, from Whom all goodness flows, I lift my soul to Thee; In all my sorrows, conflicts, woes, Good Lord, remember me. If on my aching, burdened heart, My sins lie heavily, Thy pardon grant, Thy peace impart; Good Lord, remember me. […]
Do you enjoy reading our reasoned and reflective essays at The Imaginative Conservative, as we pursue the Good, the True, and the Beautiful? Do you enjoy engaging in discussions of culture, history, politics, and economics, in the tradition of Russell Kirk, Edmund Burke, Richard Weaver, Eric Voegelin, Christopher Dawson, and other leaders of Imaginative Conservatism? Do [...]
"Modern society cannot endure—and its survival is immediately in question—without discussion among thinking men." So said Russell Kirk, American Conservatism's premier thinker, sixty years ago. Dr. Kirk's insight still rings true today. In an age when acerbic sound bytes dominate our political discourse and when most journals offer fleeting, unserious commentary on the issues of the day, there is a [...]
In “Liberty, the God That Failed,” Christopher Ferrara asks us to open our eyes to harsh realities, but also to the possibilities for a rightly-ordered society and the true liberty that can still be ours. To read this book is never to think about the modern West and American history in the same way again. [...]
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