Meeting Gollum ~ The Imaginative Conservative

By Joseph Pearce

How could one possibly identify with the utterly pathetic and self-centred Gollum?

The only answer, I came to understand with a sickening sense of resignation, is that those who identify with Gollum are those whose own identity has been gollumized by their slavery to the power of the real-life Ring which rules their lives…

— Read on theimaginativeconservative.org/2021/09/meeting-gollum-joseph-pearce.html

Requiem for a Soldier: Louis Awerbuck – The Imaginative Conservative

Louis Awerbuck believed that societies fell to folly when they drew distinct lines between their warriors and scholars.

What this ultimately led to was a society’s thinking being done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.

Awerbuck saw himself as the keeper of a tradition, a heritage of warriors in ages past, and civilization’s protectors today…

— Read on theimaginativeconservative.org/2021/05/requiem-soldier-louis-awerbuck-jose-maria-j-yulo.html

Remembering Michael Novak’s “Democratic Capitalism” ~ The Imaginative Conservative

By Bradley Birzer

One doesn’t have to agree with everything Michael Novak argued to recognize the genius of the man.

Like all true conservatisms, his democratic capitalism was as much an anti-system as anything recognizable as a system.

He was a giant of an intellect, and his best book deserves to be remembered, even if in friendly opposition…

— Read on theimaginativeconservative.org/2021/09/remembering-michael-novak-spirit-democratic-capitalism-bradley-birzer.html