The Humane Economy of Wilhelm Roepke ~ The Imaginative Conservative
By Russell Kirk
Wilhelm Roepke was the principal champion of a humane economy: that is, an economic system suited to human nature and to a humane scale in society, as opposed to systems bent upon mass production regardless of counterproductive personal and social consequences.
He was a formidable opponent of socialist and other “command” economies; also a fearless, perceptive critic of an unthinking “capitalism.”
— Read on theimaginativeconservative.org/2012/01/humane-economy-wilhelm-roepke-russell-kirk.html
America’s “Logres”: The Mythology of a Nation ~ The Imaginative Conservative
By Raymond Docupil
C.S. Lewis believed that every nation possesses what he called a “haunting,” a “Logres,” which baptizes it with a unique inner life. What, or where, is America’s Logres?
Who is the mythological hero that could guide the American identity the way Arthur guided Britain and inspired generations of English poets and artists?
— Read on theimaginativeconservative.org/2020/08/america-logres-raymond-dokupil.html
American Burke: The Uncommon Liberalism of Daniel Patrick Moynihan ~ The Imaginative Conservative
By Greg Weiner
Touched by experience with a sense of the tragic in politics, Daniel Patrick Moynihan nonetheless clung to a stubborn optimism about its possibilities.
But those possibilities were bounded by a defining feature of Moynihan’s politics: limitation.
There were limits to what government could do and, more important, limits to how it should attempt to do it…
A Toilet Fit for a King? – Biblical Archaeology Society
By Nathan Steinmeyer
While carrying out excavations on a 2,700-year-old palatial estate in Jerusalem, a team of archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority came across a surprising and rather unusual find: a private toilet.
— Read on www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/a-toilet-fit-for-a-king/
The Plight of the Conservative Artist in a Liberal World ~ The Imaginative Conservative
By Kay Clarity
The left has long understood the power of the arts in furthering radical ideas, in a way conservatives have largely failed to grasp in defending theirs.
Conservatives with the financial means must increase their support of conservative artists for the sake of a culture in immediate need of the wisdom that a long intellectual, cultural, educational, and political conservative tradition has produced…
— Read on theimaginativeconservative.org/2021/03/plight-conservative-artist-kay-clarity.html
Edgar Allan Poe and the Mask of the 20th Century ~ The Imaginative Conservative
By David Gosselin
The name Edgar Allan Poe conjures images of the macabre, murder, insanity, and self-destruction, but is this the real Edgar Poe?
— Read on theimaginativeconservative.org/2019/10/edgar-allan-poe-mask-20th-century-david-gosselin.html
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