Timeless Essays
The “Wild and Terrible” Mozart ~ The…
“Too wild and terrible” is what Ludwig van Beethoven is reported to have said about Mozart’s famous…
Kant On History and Culture as a Means to Ethical…
Culture, for Immanuel Kant, should be understood not as an aesthetic pursuit of the…
Russell Kirk & Pope St. John Paul II on the…
Pope St. John Paul II and Russell Kirk defended freedom within the limits of truth and its…
Should Christians Watch “The Young Pope”? ~…
“The Young Pope” is unexpectedly different, painting a picture of the Vatican that is at once…
Homage to Shakespeare ~ The Imaginative Conservative
The first spark of genuine engagement with great writers most often comes from a teacher, and the…
Pope Francis on Literature ~ The Imaginative…
“On the Role of Literature in Formation” is perhaps Pope Francis’s best document of his…
The Risen Christ and Fallen Civilization ~ The…
With eyes wide open to the degradation we see all around us, we know that things are rotten in the…
The Reality of the Resurrection ~ The Imaginative…
Too often we Christians have given in to the temptation to sanitize the crucifixion and…
A Paschal Poem ~ The Imaginative Conservative
The last cool star of dawn wasforetelling the brightest sunshine;no cloud, no drift of mist was…
Let Us Remember Lexington and Concord! ~ The…
Outnumbering the Lexington militia nearly ten to one, the British easily won the skirmish. But,…
