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 been the nourishment of romantic love for ages. In writing letters, we participate in a great tradition…

— Read on theimaginativeconservative.org/2019/10/why-letter-writing-essential-good-life-michael-de-sapio.html

“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 of the Dead Marshes… (essay by Dwight Longenecker)

— Read on theimaginativeconservative.org/2016/06/lord-of-the-rings-read-it-and-weep-dwight-longenecker.html

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 production of weapons and materials? What’s the line between combatant and non-combatant?

— Read on theimaginativeconservative.org/2019/09/victory-over-japan-world-war-ii-devin-foley.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 the institutions and structures of civil society so as to reflect their own liberated lifestyle. This attitude tends to go hand in hand with a rejection of traditional morality and the customs that sustain ordinary people in their daily lives… (essay by Sir Roger Scruton)

— Read on theimaginativeconservative.org/2020/02/sacred-truths-profane-world-roger-scruton-2020-timeless.html