Timeless Essays
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…
The Hidden Depths in Robert Frost ~ The Imaginative…
The conservatism of Robert Frost was rooted in his tendency to view existence as inherently…
St. Thomas Aquinas —The Imaginative Conservative
St. Thomas Aquinas has the rare quality of wanting to know all that can be said for the other side.…
The Greatness of Mozart ~ The Imaginative Conservative
Mozart was not like us. The question as to why Mozart died so young is always superseded by: How…
The Light Invisible ~ The Imaginative Conservative
The modern secularist, T.S. Eliot, finds meaning either in the brute forces of the physical world…
Thomas Jefferson and “A Little Rebellion Now and…
Nowhere to be seen now are the old Jeffersonians, once a major American type, rebellious men who…
Civility: Reading Each Other – The Imaginative…
Rules are good things to have. We need to learn not to wipe our noses on our sleeves, not to take…
A Foray Into Metaphysical Poetry With John Donne ~ The…
Something about the way in which metaphysical poetry engages the mind is unique to this style of…
Eva Brann, National Treasure ~ The Imaginative…
In a moment when the forces of ideology seem to threaten to overwhelm the voice of sanity and…
The Case of “The Tempest” ~ The Imaginative…
A liberal education is free in the sense that it is free of practical goals. We study our language…
