The Imaginative Conservative

Because it is based on natural laws and timeless truths, the republic can be ignored, it can be mocked, and it can be forgotten, but it can never be fully undone. All it takes is an anamnesis, something to rouse us from our slumbers and reassert its many truths and goodnesses and beauties. Long live the republic!

Humans thrive upon historical continuity and knowing their communities are built with deep roots. But histories based on theories of power dynamics destroy an unseen social glue, leaving behind those who understood their place through a shared history.

The American and French Revolutions provide a contrast between principle and ideology; between prudence and fanaticism; between prescriptive rights and extravagant ambitions; between historical wisdom and utopianism; between free government and democratic despotism.

Having severed himself from God, man was not empowered but disempowered, not expanded but crushed, not liberated but enslaved. What was needed at that point was not only a Saviour who could repair what no human could fix, but also a teacher who could enter into the inner darkness and chaos in the human soul to make the crooked straight and retrai...

There are some ideas so plainly preposterous, so spectacularly stupid, that only an astrophysicist of atheist persuasion could possibly believe them. And when will we stop listening to such people, ...