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It’s Not Too Late To Support Us In 2023

By |2023-12-29T16:30:35-06:00December 29th, 2023|Categories: Support The Imaginative Conservative|

It’s almost the end of the year, and almost your last opportunity in 2023 to support The Imaginative Conservative. Our journal is now more than thirteen years old. Perhaps you have traveled with us since that day in 2010 when we embarked on our mission is to preserve the transcendentals, the “permanent things” that constitute the glory of Western Civilization. [...]

Time Is Running Out to Support Us in 2023

By |2023-12-26T15:15:40-06:00December 26th, 2023|Categories: Support The Imaginative Conservative|

It's almost the end of the year, and almost your last opportunity in 2023 to support The Imaginative Conservative. Our journal is now more than thirteen years old. Perhaps you have traveled with us since that day in 2010 when we embarked on our mission is to preserve the transcendentals, the “permanent things” that constitute the glory of Western Civilization. [...]

Please Join Us In Celebrating Our 13th Birthday!

By |2023-07-10T13:57:20-05:00July 10th, 2023|Categories: Support The Imaginative Conservative|

Please join us in celebrating our 13th birthday by making a donation today! Is it possible to be strong in conservative principles and to present those principles in a manner which is attractive, persuasive, and genuine? As Russell Kirk said: “A conservatism of instinct must be reinforced by a conservatism of thought and imagination.” The Imaginative Conservative will continue to [...]

An Empire of Reason

By |2023-05-04T14:30:01-05:00May 4th, 2023|Categories: American Founding, American Republic, Audio/Video|

Please enjoy this famous hour-long movie produced by Icarus Films and shown on PBS in 1988. From the website of Icarus Films: What would it have been like if television had covered the ratification process of the U.S. Constitution? Such is the premise of AN EMPIRE OF REASON, an imaginative look back at that process [...]

Are You Looking at Us?

By |2021-08-04T00:50:36-05:00August 3rd, 2021|Categories: Support The Imaginative Conservative|

Have you been reading The Imaginative Conservative for some time now? Perhaps you read our thoughtful essays every day, as you yearn for deeper thinking about “the permanent things” that undergird Western Civilization and human life: philosophy, history, literature, music, the Great Books. Or perhaps you just peek at us on occasion as you tire of [...]

Battling Dragons With Joy And Hope

By |2021-05-05T21:27:00-05:00April 29th, 2021|Categories: Support The Imaginative Conservative|

Those of us who seek to preserve the Good, the True, and the Beautiful are aware, as the old saying goes, that "there be dragons" in the world who seek to destroy the invaluable inheritance that is Western Civilization. Perhaps this has never been truer than it is today in our hyper-polarized world, where conservatives [...]

Please Remember Us on Your “Nice” List This Christmas

By |2022-12-12T14:47:48-06:00December 18th, 2020|Categories: Support The Imaginative Conservative|

We know that you have many people for whom to buy Christmas gifts, and we understand that—particularly this year—your family budget might be tight. But we hope you can find a place for The Imaginative Conservative on your shopping list. No matter how modest, your gift will mean much to us. The Imaginative Conservative‘s mission [...]

Please Make a Gift to Us Today

By |2022-12-22T08:27:59-06:00December 1st, 2020|Categories: Support The Imaginative Conservative|

The Imaginative Conservative's mission is to preserve the transcendentals, the “permanent things” that constitute the glory of Western Civilization. Here we offer thoughtful and reflective essays on issues of culture, philosophy, history, politics, economics, the arts, and liberal learning, written by some of the great conservative minds of the present and the past.  Since The Imaginative Conservative’s inception ten years [...]

Come, Let Us Reason Together

By |2023-11-28T05:38:37-06:00November 19th, 2020|Categories: Support The Imaginative Conservative|

If we followed the crowd, we would tell you, our readers: "This is our most crucial year, a turning point in our journal's history. Without your immediate support..." But we at The Imaginative Conservative think more highly of you, dear readers, than to subject you to such hyperbolic support requests. We know that you are thoughtful, [...]

Time for Conservatives to Surrender? “NUTS!”

By |2023-12-22T08:53:49-06:00November 18th, 2020|Categories: Support The Imaginative Conservative|

Gen. Anthony McAuliffe and Col. Harry Kinnard December 1944. As Christmas approaches, the beleaguered German army suddenly tries to punch its way out of the circle of Allied Forces surrounding it. As part of the Battle of the Bulge, General Heinrich Freiherr von Lüttwitz leads a force that traps the American 101st Airborne [...]

I Want You… to Support The Imaginative Conservative!

By |2021-02-01T08:18:28-06:00November 2nd, 2020|Categories: Support The Imaginative Conservative|

Elections and political candidates come and go. But The Permanent Things remain. And if the American Republic is to survive, we must turn to the mighty pillars that have supported her for the last two-and-a-half centuries: a dedication to individual liberty, the common good, public and private virtue, truth, goodness, beauty, and faith in Almighty [...]

Social Media Users Stunned, Saddened by Death of Octogenarian Celebrity

By |2020-08-07T17:38:17-05:00July 7th, 2020|Categories: Satire|

(WORLD) — Users across various social media platforms were shocked today to learn of the death of 89-year-old Manfred Krauss, the renowned German film director, whose credits include dozens of films, including 1958's The Leper, 1972's Peregrinations, and 1991's Oscar-nominated The Nursemaid's Lament. Krauss had been engaged in a well-publicized battle with lung cancer for [...]

Judging the Black Sox: The Baseball Scandal of 1919

By |2020-06-30T18:30:55-05:00June 30th, 2020|Categories: Baseball|

The Black Sox Scandal was a Major League Baseball game-fixing scandal in which eight members of the Chicago White Sox (Arnold "Chick" Gandil, Eddie Cicotte, Oscar "Happy" Felsch, "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, Fred McMullin, Charles "Swede" Risberg, George "Buck" Weaver, Claude "Lefty" Williams) were accused of throwing the 1919 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds in [...]

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