John 16:23b-28 23 In that day you will ask nothing of me. Truly, truly, I say to you, if you ask anything of the Father, he will give it to you in my name. 24 Hitherto you have asked nothing in my name; ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full. 25 [...]
An excerpt from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Nobel lecture found in Beauty Will Save the World (by Gregory Wolfe): Dostoevsky once enigmatically let drop the phrase: “Beauty will save the world.” What does this mean? For a long time I thought it merely a phrase. Was such a thing possible? When in our bloodthirsty history did beauty [...]
In 1992, Winston Elliott became president of the Free Enterprise Institute. He later began the Institute’s Center for the American Republic. In 2010, Mr. Elliott started an online journal called The Imaginative Conservative. (From Russell Kirk Center Spring 2011 Newsletter) Please tell us something about the work of the Center for the American Republic. The [...]
In comments on an essay on The Imaginative Conservative (Whittaker Chambers and the Strenuously Sterile World of Atlas Shrugged) the question has been raised as to the value of discussing Ayn Rand and her teachings on a site dedicated to conservative thought. Below, in brief, is my thinking on why this discussion is worthwhile. [...]
On CatholicVote.org my associate Dr. Birzer has published an essay entitled: “President Obama’s decision to declare war on Libya is unconstitutional, and also foolish.” And here on The Imaginative Conservative a number of interesting comments have been made regarding the quote from Dr. Kirk entitled: “We Have Not Been Appointed the Correctors of Mankind.” I [...]
Will and Ariel Durant write: “At any moment a comet may come too close to the earth and set our little globe turning topsy-turvy in a hectic course, or choke its men and fleas with fumes or heat; or a fragment of the smiling sun may slip off tangentially—as some think our planet did a [...]
In case you missed it yesterday, the best radio talk show host around, Mike Church, spent nearly an hour talking with The Imaginative Conservative founder and editor, W. Winston Elliott III. Winston is a natural leader, and he’s been content to work behind the scenes, promoting the work of his friends. I’ve seen this for [...]
“If I were rich I would have many books, and I would pamper myself with bindings bright to the eye and soft to the touch, in paper generously opaque, and type such as men designed when printing was very young. I would dress my gods in leather and gold, and burn candles of worship before [...]
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 [...]
Below are excerpts from an excellent essay by Sandro Magister addressing how Barack Obama’s utopian vision resembles that of Joachim of Fiore. Very well done. — W. Winston Elliott, III There’s a Strange Prophet in the White House His name is Barack Obama, and his messianic vision resembles that of Joachim of Fiore. At the [...]