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The Andrew Jackson & John C. Calhoun Divide — The Imaginative Conservative

When Andrew Jackson learned that John C. Calhoun had been deceiving him for more than a decade, Jackson understandably exploded in rage… While Andrew Jackson was moving against the Seminoles, the Spanish, and the British in Florida in the late 1810s, he had assumed that his closest ally in President James Monroe’s cabinet was John…

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The Humility of Mary — The Imaginative Conservative

From the Annunciation to the Presentation, from the Wedding at Cana to the upper room in Acts 1 and 2, the Mother of God’s life is undergirded and infused with humility… 1,771 more words

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The Sacred and the Profane (TIC)

The recent spectacle of the “Heavenly Bodies” gala at The Met is a perfect example of society’s confusion and an unwitting rejection of the order of things. 1,276 more words

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Stay Foolish (E-Tinkerbell)

I have always been inspired by Steve Jobs’s famous speech at Stanford. So motivating. In particular by his use of the word “foolish”. For foolish he meant to be daring, creative and ready to explore paths unseen to the wise. You must be courageous and determined to do that of course, but above all: fool. […]

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Gazpacho’s Soviet Saga: SOYUZ

Gazpacho, SOYUZ (Kscope 2018). Tracks: Soyuz One; Hypomania; Exit Suite; Emperor Bespoke; Sky Burial; Fleeting Things; Soyuz Out; and Rappaccini. To be sure, every release from the Norwegian art rockers extraordinaire, Gazpacho, is not just another moment in a progger’s life, but an actual event—filled with meaning and significance, marked by the awareness and heighten-ness […]

via Looking East: Gazpacho’s Soviet Saga — Progarchy

Andrew Jackson: Democrat or Old Republican? (TIC)

When Andrew Jackson died in 1845, he had still not aligned himself officially with the Democratic party, still believing himself a natural and cultivated republican. Was he, then, an Old Republican?… 1,728 more words

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Cultural Debris: Two Conferences & the Future of Our Civilization (TIC)

There still are men and women enough among us who know what makes life worth living—enough of them to keep out the modern barbarian, if they are resolute. 3,492 more words

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Grace in the Unredeemed Land of Middle-Earth – The Imaginative Conservative

In almost every way, J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Passage of the Marshes” presents a deeply frightening and suffocating experience for the reader, as the two Hobbits and the decrepit Gollum move across a landscape that has become devoid of grace… (essay by Bradley Birzer)
— Read on www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2018/05/grace-unredeemed-land-middle-earth-bradley-birzer.html

Mead Halls in Winter: Big Big Train as Community — Progarchy

One of the wildest and most disturbing aspects of modernity is how compartmentalized everything becomes. One important thing (a person, an idea, an institution) becomes isolated and, in its isolation, takes on its own importance, its own language (jargon), and, naturally, its own abstraction. During the past 100 years, a number of groups have tried […]

via Mead Halls in Winter: Big Big Train as Community — Progarchy

Plato’s “Timaeus”: Science, Mathematics, and a Life Lesson

Plato’s “Timaeus”: Science, Mathematics, and a Life Lesson

http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2018/05/science-mathematics-life-lesson-plato-timaeus-john-mark-reynolds.html
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Vapor Trails by Rush at 16: Peart’s Victory

It would not be an exaggeration to argue that meeting Carrie Nuttall served as one of the most important moments in Peart’s life and in precipitating Rush 3.0. In her, Peart found a reason to live fully, a reason to rediscover excellence, and a reason to return to his life in Rush. It was through […]

via Neil Peart’s Painful Victory: Vapor Trails — Progarchy