Timeless Essays
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…
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…
