About W. Winston Elliott III

W. Winston Elliott III is Editor-in-Chief of The Imaginative Conservative and President of The Free Enterprise Institute. Additionally, Mr. Elliott is Visiting Professor of Liberal Arts in the Honors College of Houston Christian University, Publisher of St. Austin Review, and Senior Fellow of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation. He earned his Master of Arts in Liberal Arts from St. John's College, Master of Arts in Theology from the University of St. Thomas (Houston), and Master of Business Administration, with Honors, from the University of Houston.

Restoring Beauty to the World

By |2024-02-12T19:26:21-06:00February 12th, 2024|Categories: Support The Imaginative Conservative|

Ora et labora.... "Pray and work." This is the motto of the Rule of St. Benedict, written in 516 by the famous founder of Western monasticism, Benedict of Nursia. For fifteen centuries Benedictine monks have lived their lives according to this motto, performing manual labor and praying to God. Many laypeople have similarly taken this [...]

Pointing to the Light: Will You Join Us?

By |2024-02-05T10:24:19-06:00December 30th, 2023|Categories: Support The Imaginative Conservative|

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. ~Philippians 4:8 I pray that The Imaginative Conservative lifts your spirits and brings to your life things excellent and praiseworthy. Our work is made possible by the generous [...]

Will You Support the Imaginative Conservative on Giving Tuesday?

By |2023-11-28T05:35:51-06:00November 28th, 2023|Categories: Support The Imaginative Conservative|

At The Imaginative Conservative, we seek to preserve the American Republic and the Western Tradition, while working and praying for a better future, through the publication of essays that reflect the best of conservative thought, past and present. Our journal now features 8,900 essays (by 1,500 authors) that have been read more than 30 million times. We could not have such success over the last [...]

A Deadly Underestimation: The Dueling Words of Brutus and Antony

By |2023-10-02T17:35:50-05:00October 2nd, 2023|Categories: Great Books, Literature, Rome, St. John's College, Timeless Essays, W. Winston Elliott III, William Shakespeare|

The title of Shakespeare’s tragedy is misleading, in that "Julius Caesar" shows us much more about Antony and the friend who betrays Caesar, Brutus, than it does about the legendary leader of Rome. Brutus: “There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea [...]

Caves, Happiness, and Liberal Learning

By |2023-06-12T17:38:40-05:00June 11th, 2023|Categories: Eva Brann, Liberal Learning, Plato, Socrates, St. John's College, W. Winston Elliott III|

If Plato’s extended metaphor of the mind as depicted by the city is true, every human mind has the capacity to train its Guardians, curb the appetitive part of the soul, and live on the grassy plains in the sun above the cave. It’s a question of true learning. When Eva Brann describes a liberal [...]

Remembering in Gratitude Those Who Did Their Duty to the Republic

By |2023-06-02T11:47:54-05:00May 28th, 2023|Categories: Foreign Affairs, Memorial Day, Military, Timeless Essays, W. Winston Elliott III|

Today I honor the men and women of the United States military who have sacrificed their lives while doing their duty to the Republic. For them, and their families, I ask God to bless them and keep them. And for the fallen of the 1st Brigade Combat Team of the 82nd Airborne Division of the U.S. Army [...]

A Conservatism of Joy, Gratitude, and Love

By |2023-07-10T10:46:20-05:00December 18th, 2022|Categories: Cicero, Classics, Conservatism, Essential, Featured, Russell Kirk, Support The Imaginative Conservative, Timeless Essays, W. Winston Elliott III|

Will you join us in our mission to pursue Truth, Goodness, and Beauty by making a gift to us today? I am yearning for conservative voices offering great depth, thoughtfulness, and dare we say, grace. Is it possible to be strong in conservative principles and to present those principles in a manner which is attractive, [...]

Preserving and Restoring Western Civilization

By |2022-12-09T09:55:03-06:00December 9th, 2022|Categories: Support The Imaginative Conservative|

Ora et labora.... "Pray and work." This is the motto of the Rule of St. Benedict, written in 516 by the famous founder of Western monasticism, Benedict of Nursia. For fifteen centuries Benedictine monks have lived their lives according to this motto, performing manual labor and praying to God. Many laypeople have similarly taken this [...]

Learn, Study, Teach: The Wisdom of Confucius

By |2023-06-26T17:52:43-05:00October 23rd, 2022|Categories: Confucius, Eastern Thought, Philosophy, St. John's College, W. Winston Elliott III|

Does Confucius' goal of a peaceful and prosperous society built upon learning, virtue, and the Way go beyond reasonable expectation? The question is worthy of discussion. The Master said, To be silent and understand, to learn without tiring, never to weary of teaching others—this much I can do. (p.48, 7.2) Reading The Analects of Confucius (all [...]

Liberal Learning and Plato’s “Meno”: Interview With Eva Brann

By |2023-05-21T11:28:50-05:00September 3rd, 2022|Categories: Classics, E.B., Eva Brann, Liberal Learning, Meno, Plato, Senior Contributors, St. John's College, W. Winston Elliott III|

“First attend to the adjustment of your own soul, particularly the regulative liberal learning of your intellect, then project your internal economy on the world as social and political justice. The other way around is headless.”  – Eva Brann, The Music of the Republic: Essays on Socrates’ Conversations and Plato’s Writings Eva Brann is a [...]

Homer’s “Odyssey” Is a Gift

By |2022-08-13T10:36:36-05:00August 13th, 2022|Categories: Classics, Essential, Eva Brann, Featured, Great Books, Homer, Odyssey, St. John's College, W. Winston Elliott III|

“Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story of that man skilled in all ways of contending, the wanderer, harried for years on end, after he plundered the stronghold on the proud height of Troy.” So begins Homer’s Odyssey. Long ago I launched my ship in pursuit of the true, the good, and [...]

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