Caryl Johnston, Author at The Imaginative Conservative

About Caryl Johnston

Caryl Johnston is the author of Consecrated Venom: The Serpent and the Tree of Knowledge and Stewards of History: A Study of the Nature of a Moral Deed as well as many stories, poems, and essays, which have appeared in The University Bookman, Modern Age, The St. Austin Review, and other publications.

Invasion of the Ultra-Subtle

By Caryl Johnston|2024-01-22T22:08:04-06:00January 22nd, 2024|Categories: Books, Liberal Arts, Russell Kirk|

More and more I am convinced that our ultimate human fate will depend on whether or not we succeed in wresting the intellectual life from the professoriate. Doesn't the whole intellectual world stand or fall on this distinction: whether our intellectual understandings are mere inventions, or whether they are authentic discoveries? One purpose of cultivating [...]

Grammar, Speech, Rhetoric, & the Fate of Humanity

By Caryl Johnston|2021-06-15T16:06:23-05:00October 11th, 2018|Categories: Language, Philosophy, Time, Truth|

Could a fifty-year-old, small book on grammar, speech, and rhetoric by a nearly-forgotten thinker have the power to revolutionize and re-awaken our decadent intellectual life? Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (1888-1973) might not recognize, in 2018, the America to which he came in 1933, seeking refuge from a Germany that had just elected Hitler. [...]