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Newspeak, Tribal Warfare & Coming to Grips with Diversity
Spending little time in America nowadays but reading from afar, it has taken me years to understand her conservatives’ upset with diversity. It turned my American friends (at least the majority,...
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Lost Temples, Giant Spiders & the Death of Western Civilization
You will need to wear your Indiana Jones fedora and stick with it, but I can promise you the big, Imaginative Conservative ending–with Russell Kirk on horseback, Christopher Dawson commanding the...
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Should We Stop Dumb People from Voting?
It is not every column that solves all of America’s problems, much less says how in a single piece of popular legislation, but the back-story comes first. As the headline already revealed, it shows how...
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When Books Die, All at Once
(Today’s offering in our Timeless Essay series affords our readers the opportunity to join Stephen Masty as he examines illiteracy and the death of books. —W. Winston Elliott III, Publisher) Never has...
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Russian Intrigue: Déjà vu All Over Again
Britannia & the Bear: The Anglo-Russian Intelligence Wars 1917-1929, by Victor Madeira (The Boydell Press, UK) Another cache of secret documents may not make forgotten history timelier than this....
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“The Unfortunate Fate of Septimus Wise”: A Ghost Story
The young man intended to purchase my death and, presumably and in some manner carry it away so that I never would meet with it. Immortality, wealth, my beloved Jessica all rotated in kaleidoscopic...
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Among the Paynim: Jalaludin Rumi and the Sufi’s Riddle
We are each so wrapped up in earthly desires that you may miss a sunset cloudbank that no one else in town bothers to notice, which God created just for you and you alone to see today—just to tell you...
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The Sun Also Sets: Legacies of Empire
An unquestioned sense of nationalistic superiority, racial no longer, is now more American than British, and in Afghanistan every step of interaction from American officials is calculated to diminish,...
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Among the Paynim: Afghanistan in Perspective
The lesson for American conservatives is this: Shrink the size and aspirations of government at home and abroad; shun future foreign entanglements as General Washington advised; but keep cooperating...
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The Christmas Truce of 1914
Everyone should know of the informal Christmas Truce that spread among soldiers in the trenches near Ypres in 1914, one hundred years ago. Instigated by a British officer writing to his German...
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Short Quiz: Are You an Imaginative Conservative?
Let’s play 20 Questions! Take the following simple diagnostic test to see if you are an Imaginative Conservative or something else. Or better yet, try it on your friends so you’ll know whether to pay...
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Books That Make Us Human
I take the blame for this idiosyncratic list. Since my betters have identified so many stellar choices, I propose the somewhat obscure: books (presented in no order) that may lead an already-humane...
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Toast the New Year as the Founders Did
Think that Franklin and Jefferson celebrated the victory at Yorktown with a cheap jug of Wal-Mart red? Or signed the Declaration of Independence with a few six-packs (even of Sam Adams beer)? If so,...
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Mark Twain’s “Joan of Arc”
“I studied that girl, Joan of Arc, for twelve years,” Mark Twain said, “and it never seemed to me that the artists and the writers gave us a true picture of her. They drew a picture of a peasant. But...
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