The Imaginative Conservative is pleased to share the news of the arrival of a new academic journal – ANAMNESIS. New Academic Journal and Call for Papers: ANAMNESIS, A Journal for the Study of Tradition, Place, and ‘Things Divine.’ Dear Friends and Colleagues, I am pleased to announce the launching of a new academic journal: ANAMNESIS, [...]
From Union to Empire: Essays in the Jeffersonian Tradition by Clyde N. Wilson “To check power, to return the American empire to republicanism we do not need to resort to the drastic right of revolution nor to the destructive goal of anarchic individualism. We have in the states ready-made instruments. All that is lacking is [...]
What if there is a failure of Constitutional government? If we still believe it possible to reach the point where it is a duty to “throw off such Government,” what should be the criteria for recognizing we have reached the critical moment in time? That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving [...]
In order to have our WikiLeaks Symposium available in digestible pieces we will re-publish the contributions as individual pieces over the next several days.—The Editors. Gentlemen and Honor First, gentlemen do not read other men’s private correspondence. Secondly, in The Wise Men Know What Wicked Things Are Written on the Sky Russell Kirk wrote: “It [...]
Our friends at ISI Books have recently published a very interesting new book on the political economy entitled Toward A Truly Free Market. Author John Médaille describes the theme of the book this way: “Economics, or more properly, political economy, cannot be a proper science unless it is a humane science; to be a humane [...]
Our co-editor of the The Imaginative Conservative, Brad Birzer, has written an excellent new biography entitled American Cicero: The life of Charles Carroll. From the book jacket: Before his death in 1832, Charles Carroll of Carrollton—the last living signer of the Declaration of Independence—was widely regarded as one of the most important Founders. Drawing on [...]
I find myself in a difficult position in replying to Brad Birzer’s essay “Westward, The Loss of the Republic.” First, I have great respect for my very good friend Dr. Birzer and agree with him on the essence of conservatism and most other important questions. Secondly, he is usually the hopeful one and, to put [...]
Below is an excerpt from a NY Times article (7/20/10) on the new British Prime Minister’s plan to cut government spending 25% and shrink government bureaucracy (I added a few comments in all caps). Tough economic times are the only reason such a plan has a chance. Wait a minute, aren’t we having tough economic [...]
by Winston Elliott III Winston Elliott III “Long before our own time, the customs of our ancestors moulded admirable men, and in turn these eminent men upheld the ways and institutions of their forebears. Our age, however, inherited the Republic like some beautiful painting of bygone days, its colors already fading through great [...]
Thank you to Stratford Caldecott from The Economy Project for this very generous recommendation of The Imaginative Conservative: A new and rather impressive blog has made its appearance. The Imaginative Conservative seems to be the main forum right now for intelligent discussion of social and cultural issues from the vantage-point of the cultural or “paleo”-conservatives [...]
Russell Kirk In the below quote Dr. Russell Kirk lays out the essentials for those of us seeking to preserve and restore Western civilization. He makes clear that true conservatives do not limit themselves to questions of politics and economics. In previous essays Brad, Bruce, John and Barbara have ranged from the politics [...]
The twentieth century conservative is concerned, first of all, for the regeneration of spirit and character—with the perennial problem of the inner order of the soul, the restoration of the ethical understanding, and the religious sanction upon which any life worth living is founded. This is conservatism at its highest. —Russell Kirk Friends, may we [...]