Category: Wit and Wisdom
Meeting Solzhenitsyn ~ The Imaginative Conservative
By Joseph Pearce On the morning after my arrival in Moscow, I was picked up at the appointed hour by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s eldest son, who drove me to Solzhenitsyn’s home, secluded deep within a wood of towering pine trees. As I stepped out of… Continue Reading “Meeting Solzhenitsyn ~ The Imaginative Conservative”
Rationalists Are Making a Deal With the Devil to Push Out Religion in Australia
By Peter Kurti Rationalists Are Making a Deal With the Devil to Push Out Religion in Australia — Read on m.theepochtimes.com/rationalists-are-making-a-deal-with-the-devil-to-push-out-religion-in-australia_3945350.html/amp
Why Letter-Writing Is Essential to the Good Life ~ The Imaginative Conservative
By Michael De Sapio In an age when we have come to expect things to happen for us instantaneously, letter-writing is a school for patience. Letter-writing also has the mysterious power to convey not just the words but the presence of the person. It has… Continue Reading “Why Letter-Writing Is Essential to the Good Life ~ The Imaginative Conservative”
“The Lord of the Rings”: Read It and Weep ~ The Imaginative Conservative
By Dwight Longenecker As our own society seems plunged into ever darker decadence and despair, the beauty, truth and goodness of Tolkien’s classic is an astringent balm. It is the bright clear air of a spring morning in the midst of the contemporary atmosphere… Continue Reading ““The Lord of the Rings”: Read It and Weep ~ The Imaginative Conservative”
Victory Over Japan: Did the End Justify the Means? ~ The Imaginative Conservative
By Devin Foley The central moral issue regarding both the atomic bomb and fire-bombings of cities is whether or not civilians play a key role in a ‘total war.’ When an entire society is mobilized for war, who is making the war possible through… Continue Reading “Victory Over Japan: Did the End Justify the Means? ~ The Imaginative Conservative”
The Lovely Dragon of Choice: The Freedom Not to Be Free ~ The Imaginative Conservative
By Anthony Esolen To see and to live is better than to choose; to ride the adventure of faith and hope and love is better than to plot your course to the Fortunate Isles, those illusions… (essay by Anthony Esolen) — Read on theimaginativeconservative.org/2021/08/the-lovely-dragon-of-choice-the-freedom-not-to-be-free-anthony-esolen-timeless.html
Sacred Truths in a Profane World ~ The Imaginative Conservative
By Sir Roger Scruton By and large the educated elites in the Western world today are without religious belief and often animated by what I call a “culture of repudiation,” keen to banish old ideas of the sacred from public life and to remake… Continue Reading “Sacred Truths in a Profane World ~ The Imaginative Conservative”
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