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Wit and Wisdom of Imaginative Conservatives (May 4-10)

May 12, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Wit Wisdom by Winston Elliott, III

This week The Imaginative Conservative provided a thoughtful look at the world of economics and government, world and American history, politics, classic literature, culture, Christianity, and the moral imagination. This week’s outstanding essays examined the moral imagination through literature, film, and poetry. Pour a cup of coffee, light a pipe or warm a scone, and immerse yourself in the wit and wisdom of these essays.

Filed Under: Week in Review May 12, 2013

On Wing to Beauty, Wisdom & Goodness: Plato

May 7, 2013 By Leave a Comment

platoby Plato

The wing is the corporeal element which is most akin to the divine,

and which by nature tends to soar aloft and carry

that which gravitates downwards into the upper region,

which is the habitation of the gods.

The divine is beauty, wisdom, goodness, and the like; [Read more...]

Filed Under: Plato, Quotes May 7, 2013

Wit & Wisdom of Imaginative Conservatives (April 27 – May 3)

May 5, 2013 By Leave a Comment

imaginative conservative by Winston Elliott, III

This week The Imaginative Conservative provided a thoughtful look at the world of economics and government, world and American history, politics, classic literature, culture, Christianity, and the moral imagination. Included were outstanding essays that considered war, natural law, and conservative family values. Pour a cup of coffee, light a pipe or warm a scone, and immerse yourself in the wit and wisdom of these essays.

Filed Under: Week in Review May 5, 2013

Wit and Wisdom of Imaginative Conservatives (April 20-26)

April 28, 2013 By Leave a Comment

imaginative conservativeby Winston Elliott, III

This week The Imaginative Conservative provided a thoughtful look at the world of economics and government, world and American history, politics, classic literature, culture, Christianity, and the moral imagination. Included were outstanding essays that focused on the problem of modernity, tragedy, and how conservatives should respond. Pour a cup of coffee, light a pipe or warm a scone, and immerse yourself in the wit and wisdom of these essays.

The Lonely Self? (Walker Percy vs. Carl Sagan), by Peter Lawler

Reading Russell Kirk’s Prospects for Conservatives, by Jeffrey Hart

Confirmation, or What is Truly Important, by Bruce Frohnen [Read more...]

Filed Under: Week in Review April 28, 2013

Wit & Wisdom of Imaginative Conservatives (April 13-19)

April 21, 2013 By Leave a Comment

imaginative conservativeby Winston Elliott, III

This week The Imaginative Conservative provided a thoughtful look at the world of economics and government, world and American history, politics, classic literature, culture, Christianity, and the moral imagination. Included were outstanding essays that considered poetry, music, and the imaginative conservative philosophy of basketball. Pour a cup of coffee, light a pipe or warm a scone, and immerse yourself in the wit and wisdom of these essays.

Filed Under: The Imaginative Conservative, Week in Review Tagged With: April 21, 2013

Reading Russell Kirk’s Prospects for Conservatives

April 20, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Prospects conservativesby Jeffrey Hart

Quite often, when leading a college class studying a great poem, I begin by reading it aloud. When I finish reading it, instead of beginning comment and discussion, I read it again, perhaps even a third time. Among other effects, this concentrates the student’s mind on the object, which is the subject. Commentary is ontologically subordinate to the poem, to its “quiddity,” as the philosophers say. I have somewhat the same impulse as regards Russell Kirk’s Prospects for Conservatives. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Russell Kirk Tagged With: April 20, 2013

Wit & Wisdom of Imaginative Conservatives (March 30-April 5)

April 7, 2013 By Leave a Comment

imaginative conservativeby Winston Elliott, III

This week The Imaginative Conservative provided a thoughtful look at the world of economics and government, world and American history, politics, classic literature, culture, Christianity, and the moral imagination. Included were outstanding essays on Holy Week and education. Pour a cup of coffee, light a pipe or warm a scone, and immerse yourself in wit and wisdom.

Filed Under: Week in Review April 7, 2013

Wit and Wisdom of Imaginative Conservatives (March 23-29)

April 1, 2013 By Leave a Comment

imaginative conservativeby Winston Elliott, III

This week The Imaginative Conservative provided a thoughtful look at the world of economics and government, world and American history, politics, classic literature, culture, Christianity, and the moral imagination. Included were outstanding essays with a conservative perspective on ideology, metaphor, justice, and Holy week. Pour a cup of coffee, light a pipe or warm a scone, and immerse yourself in the wit and wisdom of these essays.

Teaching in an Age of Ideology: John H. Hallowell, by Lee Trepanier

The Glory of Mankind: Alcohol and the Early Republic, by Stephen Klugewicz

Wilhelm Roepke and the Liberal Ideal, by Ralph Ancil

The Irrationalism of Nationalism, by Daniel McInerny [Read more...]

Filed Under: Week in Review April 1, 2013

The Fact of the Incarnation: Luigi Giussani

March 30, 2013 By Leave a Comment
The Crowning with Thorns-Caravaggio Luigi Giussani

The Crowning with Thorns-Caravaggio

by Msgr. Luigi Giussani

The fact of the incarnation, this inconceivable Christian claim, has remained in history in its substance and entirety: a man who is God – who thus knows man – and whom man must follow if he is to have true knowledge of himself and all things. This initial experience has an unequivocal meaning: destiny has not left man alone. It is an event which was announced throughout the centuries and which reaches us even today. The real problem at hand is that man recognize this with love. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Christian Humanism, Christianity, John Barnes, Luigi Giussani March 30, 2013

The Mystery of Grace: Romano Guardini

March 30, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Romano Guardini

Romano Guardini

by Romano Guardini

Through your creation, O Lord, goes a voice that reminds us of something that is above everything created. The things and their ordering, earth, sun and stones, seem to be pure reality, but our heart knows that they proceed from your holy freedom, and are gifts that should always be accepted afresh. And so they point away from themselves to something higher than they are; but what they might be they do not say.

This indication is stronger in our own life. Plants and animals grow from their own nature and perfect themselves in it; not so men. Only in joining with this other does he come to himself; he gains his own being only when he gives himself to the other. But there is nothing mortal that could be the last fulfilling encounter for him, and so he is always wandering and searching.  [Read more...]

Filed Under: Prayer, Romano Guardini March 30, 2013

Charles Murray: Happiness & Good Government

March 25, 2013 By

Charles Murrayby Bruce Frohnen

In Pursuit: Of Happiness and Good Government by Charles Murray

Featured Book: The crux of Murray’s argument is that in order to be happy, individuals must be members of communities. Through an unerring use of examples drawn from social science, Charles Murray shows how we know, or should know, that people have a need for close personal connections, a need to be challenged, and a need to be held to real, substantive standards of behavior within real, authoritative social structures if they are to be happy. Moreover, he shows, while we generally can be decent and caring in our daily lives, the realities of political power tend bring out our pride and selfishness in ways that cause damage to the fundamental groups in which we pursue happiness. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Bruce Frohnen, Charles Murray, TIC Featured Book March 25, 2013

Wit and Wisdom of Imaginative Conservatives (March 16-22)

March 24, 2013 By Leave a Comment

imaginative conservativeby Winston Elliott, III

This week The Imaginative Conservative provided a thoughtful look at the world of economics and government, world and American history, politics, classic literature, culture, Christianity, and the moral imagination. Included were outstanding essays that considered soulcraft, artistic decadence, and the art of living conservatism. Pour a cup of coffee, light a pipe or warm a scone, and immerse yourself in the wit and wisdom of these essays.

Filed Under: Week in Review March 24, 2013
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