A Night of Kirk Ghost Stories at the Dead Philosophers Society

By |2023-10-29T14:59:06-05:00October 29th, 2023|Categories: Audio/Video, Fiction, Timeless Essays|Tags: |

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, the ancestral home of Russell Kirk. In the keynote [...]

A Chestertonian Thanksgiving

By |2023-11-22T22:56:49-06:00November 23rd, 2022|Categories: Christianity, G.K. Chesterton, Thanksgiving, Timeless Essays|Tags: |

On Thanksgiving, I wish to cherish G.K. Chesterton’s magnanimity for our fellow, but often frustrating, man. He said, “We need a rally of the really human things; will which is morals, memory which is tradition, culture which is the mental thrift of our fathers.” What follows is a cornucopia of aphorisms and excerpts from a [...]

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

By |2016-10-13T16:00:56-05:00February 7th, 2014|Categories: Culture, Government, Language|Tags: |

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 able to speak the other’s language. That is not to say that we cannot achieve harmony with others absent a [...]

Ten Ways to Shop Like a Conscientious Conservative

By |2016-07-26T15:41:51-05:00November 29th, 2013|Categories: Conservatism|Tags: |

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 to the mall with your sisters and besties to see it all decked out in decorations and [...]

Clockwork Blues: Hubris, Humility & The Minimum Wage

By |2013-12-19T10:26:27-06:00February 18th, 2013|Categories: Barack Obama, Keynesian, Political Economy, Politics|Tags: |

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 never have to pick up the tab. If enacted, these proposals will pancake employers, batter investors, and will [...]

President Obama’s Inaugural Address: Decoded and Heckled

By |2013-12-19T10:47:50-06:00January 22nd, 2013|Categories: Barack Obama, Politics|Tags: |

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 the idea is that it automatically separates the bull from the solid substance of the discourse, leaving the latter as a residuum.” If Nock were alive today to use [...]

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

By |2016-02-12T15:28:35-06:00November 27th, 2012|Categories: Christianity, Economics, G.K. Chesterton, Political Economy, Politics|Tags: |

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 future conservative order. It’s time we realize it’s morning in America again and that we have been blind to the glaring truth that [...]

The Party of Burke and Thoughts on the Present Discontents

By |2014-01-23T10:36:20-06:00November 5th, 2012|Categories: Politics|Tags: |

“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 Darkness and one push drives us in.”  Many of us on the Right feel that America’s present [...]

Reflections on Edmund Burke, Capitalism, and the Mob

By |2014-01-15T14:04:07-06:00October 26th, 2012|Categories: Capitalism, Civilization, Conservatism, Edmund Burke|Tags: |

‘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 it also means a large group of rancorous, disgruntled people rioting for special interests they share in common.  This irony is particularly interesting [...]

The Permanent Things & Imaginative Conservatism (pt III)

By |2019-11-14T15:24:01-06:00June 8th, 2012|Categories: Audio/Video, Conservatism, W. Winston Elliott III|Tags: |

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 conservatism and the American Republic with host Darrin Moore & editor of The Imaginative Conservative, Winston Elliott, on WAAM Radio Talk1600 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. [...]

The Permanent Things & Imaginative Conservatism (pt II)

By |2019-11-14T15:22:54-06:00June 5th, 2012|Categories: Audio/Video, Conservatism, Russell Kirk, W. Winston Elliott III|Tags: |

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 of conservatism and the American Republic with host Darrin Moore & editor of The Imaginative Conservative, Winston Elliott, on WAAM Radio Talk1600 [...]

The Permanent Things & Imaginative Conservatism (pt I)

By |2019-11-14T15:24:21-06:00May 25th, 2012|Categories: Audio/Video, Conservatism, Russell Kirk, W. Winston Elliott III|Tags: |

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 of The Imaginative Conservative, Winston Elliott, on WAAM Radio Talk1600 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. More to come… [...]

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