Timeless Essays
The Political Thought of Edgar Allan Poe ~ The…
Edgar Allan Poe vigorously denounced the Jeffersonian ideal of democracy. He had no sympathy with…
Montesquieu & the Two Historical Foundations of…
Westerners today ought to meditate upon Montesquieu’s admirable reflections whenever they decide to…
Blind Benjamin Franklin ~ The Imaginative Conservative
Even today, many Americans take an intentionally anti-intellectual stance, agreeing with the…
Don Quixote in Pursuit of the Beautiful ~ The…
When man pursues beauty, he takes it into himself and becomes beautiful through it; a perpetual…
An Endangered Species ~ The Imaginative Conservative
When will men in hats come back? When men come back. When we push back from our desks and laptops,…
Old Whig ~ The Imaginative Conservative
In the Whig view to which Edmund Burke subscribed, the validity of law is independent of its…
The End of Literature ~ The Imaginative Conservative
There have been theories about literature nearly as long as there has been literature, beginning…
A Masterpiece of Cultural History: Barzun’s Dawn…
In the annals of writing history, there are a handful of volumes that have become established as…
Mark Twain’s “Joan of Arc” ~ The…
“I studied that girl, Joan of Arc, for twelve years,” Mark Twain said, “and it never seemed to me…
The Big Scrum: Football Über Alles!
“Of all these sports,” Theodore Roosevelt wrote in 1893, “there is no better sport than football.”…
