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The Christian Humanism of Willa Cather 27 Aug 2013 | 10:05 am
Willa Cather by Bradley J. Birzer On Sunday, August 11, 2013, my family and I began our now-yearly odyssey into the West. As I write this, our vacation is ending, and I’m typing this from the second...
Juliet and Other Shakespearean Nominalists 27 Aug 2013 | 10:01 am
Shakespeare by R. V. Young “It was William of Occam,” writes Richard Weaver in his seminal work, Ideas Have Consequences, “who propounded the fateful idea of nominalism, which denies that universals...
Vindicating Jesus—in Court?! 26 Aug 2013 | 10:05 am
by Bruce Frohnen Here’s a rather silly story, brought to my attention by The Imaginative Conservative’s own Stephen Masty. It should tell us something about how very silly lawyers’ views of morals a...
Literature and the Foundations of the West 26 Aug 2013 | 10:02 am
by Jeffrey Hart In the early twenty-first century the liberal arts curriculum at our universities is in a peculiar condition of uncertainty. No one is willing to say what it should consist of or what...
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemanliness 25 Aug 2013 | 10:05 am
The Baltimore Orioles, 19th Century by Stephen M. Klugewicz The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. This field, this game, is a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all th...
A Case for the Quaint: The Great Ideas Program 25 Aug 2013 | 10:02 am
Robert Hutchins by Robert M. Woods Studying and leading conversations on the Great Books for more than twenty years still produces that sense of awe and wonder, especially when I discover a new tool...
August 24, 1814–The Night They Drove Ol’ DC Down 24 Aug 2013 | 10:05 am
by Stephen Masty On August 24, 1814, in one of history’s most farsighted and selfless moments, British troops burned down Washington, DC. Americans never even thanked them, only rebuilt and wasted th...
Man in the Arena: Citizenship In A Republic 24 Aug 2013 | 10:02 am
Theodore Roosevelt by Theodore Roosevelt It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit b...
Meaning, Identity & Learning: Just Read It! 23 Aug 2013 | 10:10 am
by Peter Augustine Lawler Someone might say—and libertarians skeptics often do—that classes in philosophy and literature are given a quite an arbitrarily inflated value by according them credit. Do a...
The Well-Clad Conservative: Bow Tie Basics 23 Aug 2013 | 10:05 am
Winston S. Churchill by Alan Cornett Wearing a bow tie is a way of broadcasting an aggressive lack of concern for what other people think.– Warren St. John, The New York Times Bow ties tend to prov...
