Tag: Timeless Essays
The Dignity of Work ~ The Imaginative Conservative
By Francis Lee When the government began to define “essential” services, I began to question the relationship between man and his labor: Does man simply work to provide the means to live for his household or does he engage in work for its own… Continue Reading “The Dignity of Work ~ The Imaginative Conservative”
Dennis Prager: Imagine No Big Cities
By Dennis Prager The bigger the city, the more anonymous the individual. People behave much better when they are known to their neighbors. — Read on http://www.dailysignal.com/2021/08/30/imagine-no-big-cities/
The Latest Alleged Election Fraud in California May Have Overturned an Election | The Heritage Foundation
Hans A. von Spakovsky The U.S. Supreme Court said in 2008, when it upheld Indiana’s voter ID law, “that not only is the risk of voter fraud real but that it could affect the outcome of a close election.” — Read on http://www.heritage.org/election-integrity/commentary/the-latest-alleged-election-fraud-california-may-have-overturned
Policing the World ~ The Imaginative Conservative
By Walter McDougall Benjamin Harrison insisted America’s truly dangerous enemies were not Great Powers abroad but a lapse of integrity and purity at home. He believed republicanism would spread in the world by “sympathy and emulation” and feared the harm Americans might do to… Continue Reading “Policing the World ~ The Imaginative Conservative”
Among the Paynim: Afghanistan in Perspective – The Imaginative Conservative
By Stephen Masty The lesson for American conservatives is this: Shrink the size and aspirations of government at home and abroad; shun future foreign entanglements as General Washington advised; but keep cooperating more closely with Afghans and stick it out for America’s own lasting… Continue Reading “Among the Paynim: Afghanistan in Perspective – 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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