Tom Pauken, Author at The Imaginative Conservative

About Tom Pauken

Tom Pauken was on President Reagan’s White House staff and Director of the federal agency, ACTION, from 1981 to 1985. He is the author of THE THIRTY YEARS WAR: The Politics of the Sixties Generation, and BRINGING AMERICA HOME: How America Lost Her Way and How We Can Find Our Way Back.

“The Soul of Politics”: Glenn Ellmers’ Enlightening Biography of Harry Jaffa

By Tom Pauken|2022-04-10T14:55:23-05:00April 10th, 2022|Categories: Books, Conservatism, Leo Strauss, Neoconservatism|

Glenn Ellmers has written an enlightening biography of the late Harry Jaffa, a political theorist whose views on the American Founding have become conventional wisdom in certain conservative circles. But I find Willmoore Kendall’s views more persuasive, and his warning about the danger of the Jaffa thesis more prescient. The Soul of Politics: Harry V. [...]

A Willmoore Kendall Moment

By Tom Pauken|2022-01-30T13:58:37-06:00January 30th, 2022|Categories: American Republic, Books, Conservatism, Constitution|

With America in great need of political and intellectual warriors to fight for our “Constitutional morality,” what better man to learn from as one prepares for battle than Willmoore Kendall. Heaven Can Indeed Fall: The Life of Willmoore Kendall, by Christopher H. Owen (256 pages, Lexington Books, 2021) More than 50 years after his death, [...]