Darrin Moore

Coke’s Superblunder: Teaching the World to Sing in Perfect Discord

Is Coke's multilingual Superbowl commercial another milestone in the progressive march toward multiculturalism? With the exception of playing music together from the written page, perhaps nothing permits perfect harmony among men as much as being...

Ten Ways to Shop Like a Conscientious Conservative

Yesterday we were thankful for the harvest, now we reward our year's successes. I know how so many of you ladies get all warm and fuzzy inside, putting on your Christmassy sweaters, listening to Christmas music while driving...

A Night of Kirk Ghost Stories at the Dead Philosophers Society

The first talk by Russell Kirk biographer, James Person, tells of horror, terror and the frightful kidnapping of Russell Kirk's wife. Harry Veryser, who was Russell Kirk's 'roommate' when Kirk taught at Hillsdale College, tells of the ghosts, séances, exorcisms, and fiery deaths on Piety Hill,...

Clockwork Blues: Hubris, Humility & The Minimum Wage

President Obama buttered up the American taxeaters with his syrupy State of the Union address on Fat Tuesday night by tabling a massive stack of new spending proposals that are selling like hotcakes with folks who will...

President Obama’s Inaugural Address: Decoded and Heckled

Albert Jay Nock made famous the device called the Oxometer which is "a device to be installed wherever there is conversation or oratory going on, and...

Libraries and Bookplates

The optimist says the glass is half full, the pessimist that it is half empty, and the imaginative conservative asks why the glass is twice the size of what it needs to...

We Were All Wrong All Along: G.K. Chesterton

It has now been several weeks since we imaginative conservatives woke up to the nightmare that President Obama had been reelected. It is time we wake from our delusional daydream for...

A Chestertonian Thanksgiving

There haven't been many writers who exuded gratitude more than G.K. Chesterton. One could assemble a lovely article simply by stitching together his best insights about being humble, grateful, gracious and adventurous, so that's just what I've done. Perhaps folks...

The Party of Burke and Thoughts on the Present Discontents

"The abyss of Hell itself seems to yawn before me," Burke was to write in 1793 as the French Revolution continued its bloody march carrying the banner of 'liberté, égalité, fraternité!'  "We are just on the verge of...

Reflections on Edmund Burke, Capitalism, and the Mob

‘Mob’ is an interesting word because of its dual meaning.  It means not only ‘organized crime’, that is, a small group of men working corporately and criminally in their own self-interest, but...

The Permanent Things & Imaginative Conservatism (pt III)

by Winston Elliott III & Darrin Moore This is the third and final video segment (see part I here, part II here) of "The Permanent Things & Imaginative Conservatism", the recent discussion of...

The Permanent Things & Imaginative Conservatism (pt II)

by Winston Elliott III & Darrin Moore Below is the second of three video segments (see part I here and part III here) of "The Permanent Things & Imaginative Conservatism", the recent discussion...

The Permanent Things & Imaginative Conservatism (pt I)

by Winston Elliott III & Darrin Moore Below is the first of three video segments of "The Permanent Things & Imaginative Conservatism", the recent discussion of conservatism and the American Republic with host Darrin Moore & editor...

Russell Kirk and the Swords of Imagination

The battle for our future is being fought within the imaginations of men. This has always been so. Russell Kirk explained: “All great systems, ethical or political, attain their ascendency over the minds of men by virtue of...