Senior Contributors
Conservative Credo ~ The Imaginative Conservative
The conservative believes that the True, the Good, and the Beautiful are interrelated, and that all…
Tolkien versus Shakespeare ~ The Imaginative…
J.R.R. Tolkien believed that fairy-stories hold up a mirror to man, showing us ourselves. The…
Swimming Against the Stream ~ The Imaginative…
Regina Derieva’s life and poetry were filled with the bleak, the absurd, and the painful. But they…
A Reflection ~ The Imaginative Conservative
Ridley Scott’s film is a vast oversimplification of a complex historical reality. Therein lies the…
The Nature of the Inklings ~ The Imaginative…
It is critical to remember that the meeting times as well as the membership of the Inklings were…
Remembering Jack ~ The Imaginative Conservative
My friend John O’Connell was a conservative of the truest stamp, never miseducated, never subject…
In Search of Truth, Meaning, and Joy ~ The Imaginative…
The idea of joy is to me inseparable from the idea of culture. Joy in truth gives rise to…
C.S. Lewis on the Existence of Fairies ~ The…
C.S. Lewis would most certainly have remembered the interest in fairies from the 1920s, and his…
Truth and Masks in the World of Wilde ~ The Imaginative…
In 1885 Oscar Wilde wrote “The Truth of Masks,” in which he claimed that there was no such thing in…
The Romantic Reaction ~ The Imaginative Conservative
C.S. Lewis thought that “Romanticism” had acquired so many different meanings that, as a word, it…
