Timeless Essays
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.”…
The Legacy of Forrest McDonald ~ The Imaginative…
Forrest McDonald demonstrated that the historian above all must be a pragmatist who looks at the…
Imagining the Epiphany ~ The Imaginative Conservative
The late Steve Masty’s “The Test of the Magi” is a novel that displays a powerful religious…
Did the Three Wise Men Really Exist? ~ The Imaginative…
It is easy to understand why skeptical New Testament scholars have relegated the magi from…
A Carol for Epiphany Eve ~ The Imaginative Conservative
“The Gloucestershire Wassail” is a traditional English carol associated with the eve of Epiphany,…
Permanent Things: T. S. Eliot’s Conservatism
T.S. Eliot’s conservatism is “pre-political,” offering no simple formula for the modern polity. He…
J.R.R. Tolkien’s Sanctifying Myth ~ The…
Myth, J.R.R. Tolkien thought, can convey the sort of profound truth that is intransigent to…
