The Tory Tradition ~ The Imaginative Conservative

By Michael J. Connolly

There is a Tory tradition in America that runs against the grain of establishment Liberalism, embracing home, hearth, community, family, church, nature, and the moral realities of everyday life, and opposed to individualism, unlimited free markets, libertarianism, secularism, and the rootless loneliness of global modernity.

This tradition comes from within America, not without…

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The Essence of Conservatism ~ The Imaginative Conservative

By Russell Kirk

Everything worth conserving is menaced in our generation. Mere unthinking negative opposition to the current of events, clutching in despair at what we still retain, will not suffice in this age.

A conservatism of instinct must be reinforced by a conservatism of thought and imagination…

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