Darwin, Bureaucratese, and the Decline of Poetry ~ The…
I want to begin by asking a simple question: Why has poetry descended from being a great delight to…
Tag: Imaginative
Franz Schubert’s Music of Paradise Lost ~ The…
Franz Schubert’s music is the music of Paradise lost. It is the songful lament of the wanderer who…
A Reflection ~ The Imaginative Conservative
Ridley Scott’s film is a vast oversimplification of a complex historical reality. Therein lies the…
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…
Remembering Jack ~ The Imaginative Conservative
My friend John O’Connell was a conservative of the truest stamp, never miseducated, never subject…
The Hidden Depths in Robert Frost ~ The Imaginative…
The conservatism of Robert Frost was rooted in his tendency to view existence as inherently…
In Search of Truth, Meaning, and Joy ~ The Imaginative…
The idea of joy is to me inseparable from the idea of culture. Joy in truth gives rise to…
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.…
C.S. Lewis on the Existence of Fairies ~ The…
C.S. Lewis would most certainly have remembered the interest in fairies from the 1920s, and his…
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 The question as to why Mozart died so young is always superseded by: How…
