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Reflections on Imaginative Conservatism

The Historical Case Against Censorship

By Drew Maglio|

With Charity For All: What Joe Biden Should Learn From Abe Lincoln

2021-01-19T16:43:21-06:00By Thomas Pack|

Sensing the Dangers of Romantic Sensibility

2021-01-18T12:09:46-06:00By Paul Krause|

Impeachment Inferno: Can President Trump Be Tried After Leaving Office?

2021-01-20T11:07:40-06:00By Thomas Ascik|

James Otis, Then and Now

2021-01-18T15:38:58-06:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

How Liberals Turned Freedom Into Tyranny

2021-01-17T11:23:58-06:00By John Horvat|

Which Way Is Heaven?

2021-01-18T10:13:01-06:00By Joseph Pearce|

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Imagining a World Without Time

2019-10-07T14:30:34-05:00By Eva Brann|

Visions of a Botanist: Explorations & Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest

2019-09-30T15:15:09-05:00By Eva Brann|

The “Eumenides” of Aeschylus: Whole-Hearted Patriotism & Moderated Modernity

2019-09-23T23:56:06-05:00By Eva Brann|

Understanding Imagination

2019-09-18T21:54:46-05:00By Eva Brann|

Image, Being, and Form in the Platonic Dialogues

2020-08-10T15:05:44-05:00By Eva Brann|

What Has Athens To Do With You?

2019-08-12T12:29:46-05:00By Eva Brann|

The Ecstasy of Love

2019-08-26T21:23:06-05:00By Eva Brann|

Converting the Cosmos of the Mind

2019-08-19T22:06:59-05:00By Eva Brann|

Socrates on Statesmanship: The Actual Intention

2020-11-15T19:19:49-06:00By Eva Brann|

Plato’s Theory of Ideas

2020-11-05T17:18:02-06:00By Eva Brann|

Mental Imagery

2019-07-29T10:53:04-05:00By Eva Brann|

The Past-Present

2020-05-13T18:32:47-05:00By Eva Brann|

The Moral Imagination & Imaginative Conservatism

2019-07-19T14:32:07-05:00By Eva Brann|

The Declaration of Independence: Translucent Poetry

2020-06-10T11:03:44-05:00By Eva Brann|

“Death in Venice”: The Problem of Romantic Reaction

2019-07-03T09:43:30-05:00By Eva Brann|

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American Republic

James Otis, Then and Now

2021-01-18T15:38:58-06:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

Exploiting the Capitol Riot to Kill Trump

2021-01-15T08:44:19-06:00By Patrick J. Buchanan|

Institutionalized Obedience: Americans & the Lockdowns

2021-01-12T10:56:12-06:00By Habi Zhang|

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Conservatism

Conservatism: Born Against Simplicity

2020-12-29T15:12:29-06:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

Reflections on Conservatism

2020-12-28T14:06:44-06:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

So Much for Our “Conservative Court”

2020-12-17T16:59:00-06:00By Mario Alexis Portella|

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Culture

Liberty, Religion, & Woke Progressivism

2021-01-10T17:17:54-06:00By Casey Chalk|

The Mellon Foundation Goes Woke

2021-01-08T09:35:10-06:00By Andrew Balio and George Liebmann|

Garrison Keillor’s “That Time of Year”

2021-01-07T15:56:01-06:00By Chuck Chalberg|

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Books

The Fine Art of the Essay

2021-01-13T15:01:11-06:00By Michael De Sapio|

Garrison Keillor’s “That Time of Year”

2021-01-07T15:56:01-06:00By Chuck Chalberg|

The Best Book of 2020

2021-01-08T11:29:00-06:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

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Politics

With Charity For All: What Joe Biden Should Learn From Abe Lincoln

2021-01-19T16:43:21-06:00By Thomas Pack|

Impeachment Inferno: Can President Trump Be Tried After Leaving Office?

2021-01-20T11:07:40-06:00By Thomas Ascik|

James Otis, Then and Now

2021-01-18T15:38:58-06:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

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Imagination

Prayer, Beauty, and Civilization

2020-11-21T10:16:29-06:00By Michael De Sapio|

The Assault on Opera

2020-11-12T13:17:40-06:00By Sir Roger Scruton|

Zombie Legends in the Age of Mass Man

2020-10-30T15:23:04-05:00By Matthew Pheneger|

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Economics

Manzoni’s Political Economy

2020-10-06T11:19:30-05:00By David Deavel|

Bonapartism and the Populist Empire

2020-10-01T15:42:25-05:00By Dylan Stevenson|

Antifa: The Stormtroopers of Global Capitalism

2020-09-17T15:04:13-05:00By Joseph Pearce|

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Literature

“Modern Dreams: Endless Dreams”

2021-01-05T14:58:24-06:00By David Gosselin|

On the Twelfth Day of Christmas: Belloc & Eliot on Twelfth Night & Epiphany

2021-01-05T12:21:37-06:00By Joseph Pearce|

“Lammas”

2020-12-10T12:52:09-06:00By David Russell Mosley|

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Liberal Learning

The Fine Art of the Essay

2021-01-13T15:01:11-06:00By Michael De Sapio|

Samuel Johnson: A Guide for the Perplexed Undergraduate

2021-01-14T09:24:27-06:00By David Hein|

Learning Latin the Medieval Way

2021-01-02T11:52:09-06:00By Michael Champagne|

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